Marie-Antoinette Tonnelat (5.03.1912-1980) was a French theoretical physicist and historian of science. She was born in Charolles. She studied at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand (Paris) and received her doctorate at the University of Paris. From 1945 she worked at the National Centre for Scientific Research (from 1956 as director of research) and from 1956 she was also a professor at the University of Paris.
Her research concerned general relativity, the theory of gravitation, classical field theory and the history of physics (optics and relativity).