Frances J. Wilson

Frances J. Wilson was an American mathematician who worked at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project. Wilson was trained in mathematics at Iowa State University and briefly worked at Blue Cross before coming to Los Alamos in 1944. During her time there, Wilson worked as a “computer” doing hand calculations in the T-5 group. In 1945, she married SED physicist Dieter Kurath. The two moved to Chicago in 1946, where Wilson worked at the University of Chicago on opacity calculations for a group which included physicist Maria Meyer.