Cecile Dewitt-Morette

Mathematician

Birthday December 21, 1922

Birth Sign Sagittarius

Birthplace France

DEATH DATE May 8, 2017 (94)

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About

Mathematician and physicist who founded a summer school at Les Houches in the French Alps. She was awarded the American Society of the French Legion of Honor Medal in 2007. 

Before Fame

She studied math at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

Trivia

She became a trustee in 1953 of the Gravity Research Foundation.

Family Life

She had four children with her physicist husband Bryce DeWitt

Associated With

She was influenced by Albert Einstein