Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 21/12/2024Cécile 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) 1281
Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 21/12/2024While in Paris, she worked with Irène and Frédéric Joliot-Curie. After finishing her doctorate in 1947, she moved to Copenhagen to work with Neils Bohr. Her next stop was the Institute for Advanced Study, where she worked with Robert Oppenheimer. (3/n) 1292
Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 21/12/2024(That is already quite a who’s who of physicists from the first half of the 20th century.) It was at the IAS that Cécile met Bryce DeWitt. She liked him pretty well, and he proposed to her in 1951. But she turned him down because he wasn’t French. (4/n) 1290
