Cécile DeWitt-Morette
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Cécile Andrée Paule DeWitt-Morette (21 December 1922 – 8 May 2017) was a French mathematician and physicist. She founded the Les Houches School of Physics in the French Alps. For this and her publications, she was awarded the American Society of the French Legion of Honour 2007 Medal for Distinguished Achievement.[1] Attendees at the summer school included over twenty students who would go on to be Nobel Prize winners,[2] including Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Georges Charpak, and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, who identify the school for assisting in their success.[3]
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Cécile DeWitt-Morette | |
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Born | Cécile Andrée Paule Morette (1922-12-21)21 December 1922 Paris, France |
Died | 8 May 2017(2017-05-08) (aged 94) |
Known for | École de Physique des Houches |
Spouse | Bryce DeWitt (1951–2004; his death) |
Children | 4 |
Awards | Marcel Grossmann Award |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Theoretical physics Functional integration |
Institutions | Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies Institute for Advanced Study University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of Texas at Austin |
Doctoral advisor | Walter Heitler Louis de Broglie |
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