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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Mathematical physicist Cécile DeWitt-Morette was born #OTD in 1922. She made foundational contributions to Feynman functional integrals, organized the first American conference on general relativity (important for gravitational waves), and started the Les Houches Summer School. 🧪 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬 (1/n)

Black and white photo of Cécile in the 1940s or 50s. She is smiling and looking to the right of the camera. Her hair is short and she is wearing a collared blouse.

A black and white photo of Cécile take in her office at UT Austin in the early or mid 2000s. A blackboard with diagrams and a well-known file cabinet sit in the background. Cécile’s hair is short and she wears a floral print shirt.

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Paul Stevenson @pdstevenson.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Thanks for the interesting thread. I knew nothing about the DeWitt whose name graces this book on my shelf

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wingfoot1618.bsky.social @wingfoot1618.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

This biographies are great!

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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 21/12/2024

I'll have to add her to the database! Here are more women in physics if you'd like to have a look 😊 www.infinite-women.com/category/sci...

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Science > Physics Archives - Infinite Women

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Thanks very much for this and so sad UNC missed the boat here

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Wolf & Wyld's Queer Bookstore @wolfwyld.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Excellent 🧪👨🏼‍🔬🧵! Thanks for sharing. 🙂

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Positron Prescriber 🇨🇦 @boaconstrictor.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

@acollierastro.bsky.social alert!

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Sole Traveler, Skipping Along The Bottom @soletraveler.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Thank you for this, I’m warmed to learn today about this woman and her life. What a life! Little wonder her smile is so genuine in every photo.

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Claudio Paganini @thehappyproton.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Been thinking a lot about the Morette-van Vleck determinant lately. Thanks for the background. (For some reason the name triggered a picture of an Italian man in my mind)

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Richard Baker @sharp.blue · 21/12/2024

The two volumes she, Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat and Margaret Dillard-Bleick wrote on differential geometry are extraordinarily good!

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Cécile Morette grew up in Normandy, studying math and physics at the University of Caen. Her graduate work, on quantum mechanics, took place at the University of Paris. Much of her education took place during the German occupation of WWII. (2/n)

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DarkSapiens @darksapiens.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

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