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Cécile DeWitt-Morette

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French mathematician and physicist (1922-2017)

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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.

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2000Marcel Grossmann Award
Officer of the Legion of Honour
Knight of the National Order of Merit
Knight of the French Order of Academic Palms
Fellow of the American Physical Society
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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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Lived 1922 to 2017 · aged 94
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