Marcel-Paul Schützenberger

Marcel-Paul Schützenberger
Schützenberger in 1972
Born(1920-10-24)24 October 1920
Died29 July 1996(1996-07-29) (aged 75)
Paris
NationalityFrench
Alma materUniversity of Paris
Known for
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Paris
Doctoral advisorGeorges Darmois
Albert Châtelet
Doctoral studentsJean Berstel
Dominique Foata
Alain Lascoux
Maurice Nivat
Dominique Perrin

Marcel-Paul "Marco" Schützenberger (24 October 1920 – 29 July 1996) was a French mathematician and Doctor of Medicine. He worked in the fields of formal language, combinatorics, and information theory. In addition to his formal results in mathematics, he was "deeply involved in [a] struggle against the votaries of [neo-]Darwinism", a stance which has resulted in some mixed reactions from his peers and from critics of his stance on evolution. Several notable theorems and objects in mathematics as well as computer science bear his name (for example Schutzenberger group or the Chomsky–Schützenberger hierarchy). Paul Schützenberger was his great-grandfather.

In the late 1940s, he was briefly married to the psychologist Anne Ancelin Schützenberger.