Denise Brice (4 July 1928 – 7 February 2025) was a French paleontologist.
Life and career.
Born in Ennevelin on 4 July 1928, Brice completed her doctoral thesis under the supervision of Dorothée Le Maître. She began her professional career at the Université catholique de Lille, where she was a professor. She also conducted research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research. In 1971 and from 1995 to 1996, she was president of the , of which she was also honorary president from 2023 to 2025.
Brice specialized in the study of Devonian brachiopods, conducting field research in the Canadian Arctic and the Boulonnais. She edited a monography covering Devonian life in the Boulonnais region. She described new brachiopod genera: "Dichospirifer", "Enchondrospirifer", "Eobrachythyris", "Eodmitria", and "Ellesmererhynchia". A number of species were named after her, including "Dendropora briceae" and "Stenorhynchia briceae".
Brice died in Villeneuve-d'Ascq on 7 February 2025, at the age of 96.