Cécile DeWitt-Morette

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. Attendees at the summer school included over twenty students who would go on to be Nobel Prize winners, including Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Georges Charpak, and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, who identify the school for assisting in their success.

Cécile DeWitt-Morette
Cécile DeWitt-Morette (left) with Bryce DeWitt (right)
Born
Cécile Andrée Paule Morette

(1922-12-21)21 December 1922
Paris, France
Died8 May 2017(2017-05-08) (aged 94)
Known forÉcole de Physique des Houches
SpouseBryce DeWitt (19512004; his death)
Children4
AwardsMarcel Grossmann Award
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical physics
Functional integration
InstitutionsDublin Institute for Advanced Studies
Institute for Advanced Study
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Texas at Austin
Doctoral advisorWalter Heitler
Louis de Broglie
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