Francoise Ulam

Françoise Aron Ulam (March 8, 1918, in Paris, France — April 30, 2011) was the wife of Polish-American mathematician, Stanislaw Ulam, member of the Manhattan Project.

Biography

In 1938, she came to the United States as an exchange student. She studied at Mills College and Mount Holyoke College, earning Master's degree in comparative literature. She devoted herself to creating a home and raising a daughter, Claire.

She was granted American citizenship in 1945.

She is the grandmother of Rebecca Weiner, New York Police Department’s deputy commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism.

On April 30, 2011, Françoise died at the El Castillo retirement community in Santa Fe. Françoise was buried in Paris.

Books (co-editor) Analogies Between Analogies: The Mathematical Reports of S.M. Ulam and his Los Alamos Collaborators (Los Alamos Series in Basic and Applied Sciences) , 1990, De Paris a Los Alamos, Une odyssée franco-americaine (French Edition), 1998, - memoir