A fact from Cécile DeWitt-Morette appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 25 March 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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Dyson recently (2011) published a letter he sent to his parents in 1948, giving a contemporaneous account of time spent with Cécile Morette and Richard Feynman.[1] It is interesting by showing her eagerness and ambition to create a new physics institute at least 3 years before the foundation of Les Houches. HouseOfChange (talk) 02:55, 15 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Another Dyson Cécile Morette anecdote, November 25, 1948[edit]
The occasion was "the Oppenheimers ...Thanksgiving party, a stand-up supper for about one hundred guests, mostly the institute and its wives." The special guest was "T.S. Eliot, who is returning to Europe to receive his Nobel Prize and go home. Most of the time he was surrounded with elderly and distinguished people in a small drawing room apart from the main crowd," but Cécile took this as a challenge: “Well, you are a lot of cowards; I’ll go and fetch him out for you.” And she did, coming out "with a grinning Eliot in tow, and introduced us to him one by one." In Dyson's letter adapted from his "Maker of Patterns: An Autobiography Through Letters" (2018). This excerpt: [2] "The Big Bang" by Freeman Dyson, March 22, 2018. --Pete Tillman (talk) 23:45, 28 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
