Talented violinist Marie-Annick Nicolas (b. 1956) won numerous international prizes, including at the age of 13 the first prize of the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique. Now a teacher at the Conservatoire of Geneva, she was born in Le Creusot, where this minor planet was discovered.
Discovered on 20-9-2001 in Le Creusot by Merlin, J.-C.