Marie-Odette Dubois-Violette (1918-2004) was the first female Inspector General of National Education in France.[1][2]
Personal life
She was born in 1918 in France,[3] and her father was Léon Blaise.[4] She married the physicist Pierre-Louis Dubois-Violette.[5]
Career and honors
From 1942 to 1945, she received a research grant from the CNRS. From 1946 to 1950, she was a researcher at the CNRS while working on her thesis; she obtained her doctorate in 1951.[5][2]
She was a member of the jury for the mathematics agrégation in the late 1960s.[5]
From 1971 until 1976 she was the first female Inspector General of National Education in France.[2][1]