Huguette Delavault
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Huguette Delavault (15 January 1924 – 2 April 2003) was a French mathematician, specializing in mathematical physics.[1][2][3] She co-founded Femmes et sciences.
Delavault was born on 15 January 1924, in Andilly, Charente-Maritime;[2][3] her parents were both teachers.[1] She studied at a school for teachers, the École normale d'instituteurs in La Rochelle, France, from 1940 to 1943, and then became a student at the École normale supérieure de Fontenay-aux-Roses from 1946 to 1949.[1][2][3] After interrupting her studies for health reasons,[3] in 1952 she passed her agrégation in mathematics.[1][2][3] She became a researcher at CNRS from 1952 to 1958, while earning a doctorate in mathematics in 1957 from the University of Paris under the supervision of Henri Villat; her dissertation applied the Laplace transform and Hankel transform to the heat equation and Maxwell's equations, using cylindrical coordinates.[1][3][4] She became a researcher at the University of Rennes in 1958, was promoted to professor in 1962, and remained there until 1970, when she became a professor at the École nationale supérieure d'ingénieurs de Caen.[1][3] She retired in 1984.[1]
Delavault died on 2 April 2003.[3]
