Françoise Aron Ulam

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.[1]

In 1939 she met Stanislaw Ulam and married him in 1941. She followed Stanislaw's involvement in the Manhattan Project in Santa Fe and Los Alamos.[1]

In Los Alamos, Francoise, while not being a member of the Project staff, became part of the international community of scientists and mathematicians.[1] She devoted herself to creating a home and raising a daughter, Claire.

She was granted American citizenship in 1945.[1]

Both Françoise and Stanislaw lost family members in the Holocaust.[1]

In 1984, when her husband died, Françoise arranged for Santa Fe Institute to receive Stanislaw Ulam's library.

in 1998 she published her memoirs, De Paris à Los Alamos: Une odyssée franco-américaine [From Paris to Los Alamos: A Franco-American Odyssey].[2]

She is the grandmother of Rebecca Weiner, New York Police Department’s deputy commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism.[3]

On April 30, 2011, Françoise died at the El Castillo retirement community in Santa Fe. Françoise was buried in Paris.[4][5]

• (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, ISBN 978-0520052901
• De Paris a Los Alamos, Une odyssée franco-americaine (French Edition), 1998, ISBN 978-2738459626 - memoir

• Interview with the Los Alamos Historical Society