Édith Mourier

Édith Mourier (21 December 1920 - 19 December 2017) was a French mathematician, specialising in probability theory. She is remembered in particular for the , used to quantify the difference between two measurements.

In 1952, Mourier was appointed director of research at French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). After defending her doctoral thesis, Mourier was appointed director of research at the CNRS until 1956 when she became a lecturer at the University of Poitiers, then at the University of Paris from 1967 to 1987. For the remainder of her career she was active in the LPMA laboratory. She studied mathematics at the Sorbonne. a field of mathematical research which was somewhat neglected in France at the time.

In 1952, Mourier was appointed director of research at CNRS after defending her doctoral thesis on "Random elements in a Banach space" . and it was announced by the Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo following the recommendations of a committee led by Isabelle Vauglin of Femmes et Sciences and Jean-François Martins, representing the operating company which runs the Eiffel Tower.