# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cecile-dewitt-morette
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:32:41.700Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/cecile-dewitt-morette"
name: "Cécile DeWitt-Morette"
slug: "cecile-dewitt-morette"
description: "Cécile Andrée Paule DeWitt-Morette 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."
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birthDate: "1922-12-21"
deathDate: "2017-05-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump