183:. His surname at birth was Seligman but at his father's urging he and his brothers changed their name to DeWitt in the 1950s, a name from their mother's side of the family, as they had encountered mistaken preconceptions while attending High Schools in the eastern United States. His brothers were the theoretical physicist
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DeWitt was married twice and had three daughters from his first marriage to Joanne Rice who he married in 1956, this ended in divorce and Dewitt remarried Jane Siple DeWitt, gaining two stepchildren. His leisure was time taken up with mountain climbing, jogging and hiking as well as listening to
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