Dorothée Le Maître

Her first paper was published in 1926, the same year she earned her bachelor's degree, and as she continued her work she was published 35 times. In 1948, after her Ph.D., Le Maître became a faculty member at the University of Lille, where she was a geology researcher.^[4] In 1950, she became connected to the French National Centre for Scientific Research. Her research included work on the Spongiomorphides and included comparative research of North African and Sub-Saharan fossils to those of Europe.^[3]

In 1941, Le Maître was awarded the Prix Fontannes, and in 1956 she received the Kuhlmann Prize.^[3] In 1959, she was honored by the French Academy of Sciences with the Grand Prix Bonnet and was recognized for her research with the French Order des Palmas académiques.^[5] She was the president of the Société Géologique du Nord in 1949 and 1950.^[3]