National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Vera Williams was in charge of the housing office at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project. The wife of physicist John Williams, she also helped organize a maid service to help with housework and childcare.
Lionel Ames is an Army and Manhattan Project veteran, who worked at Los Alamos. His is also the brother of Maurice Shapiro, who was a Los Alamos scientist.
Helen Williams was a stenographer and clerk at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Lab (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
