It is anticipated that the Eiffel Tower will be engraved this year with the names of 72 women scientists—including three former School of Mathematics scholars. Cécile DeWitt-Morette, Member (1948–50); her friend and coauthor Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, Member (1951–52, 1955); and Jacqueline Ferrand, Member (1956) are set to be recognized for their landmark work.
Physicist Paul Halpern honors the life and work of Cécile DeWitt-Morette, former
Member in the School of Mathematics/Natural Sciences, who died on
May 8 at the age of 94, writing:
Starting with the bombing of her family’s house in World War II
that...
Confronted with a theoretical question, such as whether or not
gravitational waves exist, Richard Feynman never trusted
authorities. Rather, he tried to develop and convince himself of a
solution in the simplest way possible, constructing an...
