Colette Colette Colette (; Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, 28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954) was a French mime, actress, journalist and novelist, nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Colette was widely known for her 1944 novella "Gigi" (1944), which subsequently was the basis for the film and Lerner and Loewe stage production of the same name. The writer was the subject of numerous biographies, songs, and films, including 2018's "Colette". Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette was born on January 28, 1873, to war hero and tax collector Jules-Joseph Colette and his wife Adèle Eugénie Sidonie ("Sido"), "née" Landoy, in the village of
Gabrielle Donnay She worked on tourmaline and was especially interested in the relationship between the physical properties of a mineral and its structure. She published more than 134 papers in her lifetime, almost half of which were collaborative projects with her husband. Donnay showed great insight into the various chemical mechanisms that were important in the growth of crystals." She died on 4 April 1987. Gabrielle Donnay Gabrielle Donnay, née Hamburger (21 March 1920 – 4 April 1987), was a German-born American crystallographer and historian of science. Gabrielle Donnay was born in Landeshut, Germany (now Kamienna Góra, Poland) on 21 June 1920