Dorothée Le Maître (French pronunciation: [dɔʁɔte lə mɛːtʁ] ⓘ; 1 September 1896 – 26 January 1990) was a French geologist and paleontologist known for her studies of Devonian flora and fauna in North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa.
She specialized in the study of Stromatoporoidea[1] and was one of the first women to make expeditions to observe and collect fossils from their original sites.
[1] Le Maître was born in Uzel,[2] in the Brittany region of France.
In 1948, after her Ph.D., Le Maître became a faculty member at the University of Lille, where she was a geology researcher.
[3] In 1941, Le Maître was awarded the Prix Fontannes, and in 1956 she received the Kuhlmann Prize.