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Cécile DeWitt-Morette

1922 - 2017

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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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Cécile DeWitt-Morette is the 797th most popular mathematician (up from 867th in 2019), the 4,650th most popular biography from France (up from 4,930th in 2019) and the 105th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Cécile DeWitt-Morette ranks 797 out of 1,004. Before her are Rudy Rucker, Maryna Viazovska, Alicia Boole Stott, Oswald Teichmüller, Jørgen Pedersen Gram, and Demetrios Christodoulou. After her are Paul du Bois-Reymond, Javier Perez-Capdevila, Cesare Burali-Forti, John H. Coates, Stanisław Zaremba, and Alberto Calderón.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Cécile DeWitt-Morette ranks 330. Before her are Jack Kruschen, Oscar Pettiford, Umberto Betti, Sydney Lassick, Stoyanka Mutafova, and Rory Calhoun. After her are Blaga Aleksova, Damon Knight, Bhimsen Joshi, Irina Antonova, John Eisenhower, and Roscoe Lee Browne. Among people deceased in 2017, Cécile DeWitt-Morette ranks 403. Before her are Heather Menzies, Manfred Kaiser, Carlos Humberto Romero, Roberto Anzolin, Terele Pávez, and Andrey Zaliznyak. After her are Buchi Emecheta, Santiago Vernazza, Friedel Rausch, Yambo Ouologuem, Roy Dotrice, and Pancho Segura.

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In France

Among people born in France, Cécile DeWitt-Morette ranks 4,650 out of 6,770. Before her are Jean Collas (1874), Robert Mouynet (1930), Birinus (600), Bernard Clavel (1923), Robert of Torigni (1100), and Michel Bonnevie (1921). After her are Jean Prévost (1901), Fernand Jourdant (1903), Henri Guérin (1905), Suzanne Duchamp (1889), Anton Grasser (1891), and Michel Colombier (1939).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Cécile DeWitt-Morette ranks 105. Before her are Charles Dupin (1784), Joseph-Alfred Serret (1819), Sylvestre François Lacroix (1765), Victor Puiseux (1820), Paul Montel (1876), and Jacques-Louis Lions (1928). After her are Laurent Lafforgue (1966), Henri Padé (1863), Émile Léonard Mathieu (1835), Cédric Villani (1973), Roger Apéry (1916), and James Lighthill (1924).

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