What is Cécile DeWitt-Morette?
{{Infobox scientist | name = Cécile DeWitt-Morette | image = Cecile DeWitt and Bryce DeWitt.png | caption = Cécile DeWitt-Morette (left) with Bryce DeWitt (right) | birth_date = {{birth date|1922|12|21|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Paris, France]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2017|5|8|1922|12|21}} | death_place = | doctoral_advisor = [[Walter Heitler]] [[Louis de Broglie]] | doctoral_students = Charles Doering Tianrong Zhang | known_for = [[École de Physique des Houches]] | awards = [[Marcel Grossmann Award]] | spouse = [[Bryce DeWitt]] (1951-2004; his death; 4 children) | field = [[Theoretical physics]] <br/> [[Functional integration]] | work_institution = [[Institute for Advanced Study]] <br/> [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]] <br/> [[University of Texas at Austin]] }} '''Cécile Andrée Paule DeWitt-Morette''' (21 December 1922&nbsp;– 8 May 2017) was a French mathematician and physicist. She founded a summer school at [[Les Houches]] in the [[French Alps]]. For her publications, she was awarded the American Society of the French [[Legion of Honour]] 2007 Medal for Distinguished Achievement.<ref name=senior>[http://www.seniorwomen.com/articles/articlesIntCecile.html Cécile DeWitt-Morette profile], seniorwomen.com; accessed 18 June 2015.</ref> 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 helping in their success. In 1951, she married American physicist [[Bryce DeWitt]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Oral History Transcript: Drs Bryce DeWitt & Cecile DeWitt-Morette|work=American Institute of Physics|access-date=19 April 2015|date=28 February 1995|url=http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/23199.html|archive-date=13 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150113021118/http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/23199.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> He died in 2004. They had four children. ==References== {{reflist}}