[2] After earning a dual degree in mathematics and physics from the University of Montpellier, Jeanne Ferrier became a science teacher at a boys' high school in Tarbes.
After becoming a widow for the first time, she moved to Paris and joined Marie Curie's laboratory with the support of a Carnegie grant.
[4] On May 27, 1926, she defended her doctoral thesis titled "Étude, par la méthode d'absorption, du rayonnement du radium et de son rayonnement secondaire" (Study of Radium Radiation and Its Secondary Radiation by the Absorption Method), which was later published in the journal "Annales de physique.
She then joined the Henri Poincaré Institute as an assistant in probability calculations under Émile Borel's guidance, where she worked until her retirement in 1958.
[3] Jeanne Ferrier was first married to Samuel Lattès on August 17, 1910, and became a widow in 1918, with one daughter from this first marriage.