Françoise Aron Ulam
Françoise Aron Ulam | |
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| Born | Françoise Aron March 8, 1918 |
| Died | April 30, 2011 (aged 93) |
| Spouse | Stanislaw Ulam |
| Children | Claire Anne Weiner (née Ulam) |
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 Claire Ulam at MANIAC panel, 1955 Science Photo Library C024/0659 |
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
[edit]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]
Books
[edit]- (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
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e Françoise (Aron) Ulam
- ^ De Paris à Los Alamos: Une odyssée franco-américaine
- ^ Cramer, Maria (13 August 2023). "N.Y.P.D.'s New Intelligence Chief Takes Reins of Secretive Unit". New York Times. Retrieved 13 August 2023.
- ^ "In memoriam: Francoise Ulam | Santa Fe Institute". www.santafe.edu. 4 May 2011. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
- ^ "Francoise Ulam's Obituary on Santa Fe New Mexican". Santa Fe New Mexican. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
