MG 9 · 2000
Cecile DeWitt-Morette
Cecile DeWitt-Morette was a mathematical physicist and founder of the Les Houches School of Physics.
Born
1922, Paris, France
Affiliation at the Time of the Award
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States
Prize Motivation
“For promoting General Relativity and Mathematics research and inventing the summer school concept.”
Meeting
MG IX, Rome, Italy
Work
Postwar theoretical physics needed international schools where advanced mathematics and physics could circulate rapidly.
DeWitt-Morette founded Les Houches and worked on path integrals, quantum field theory, and mathematical physics.
Her educational model helped train generations of physicists and strengthen the international community around gravity and field theory.