Vera Williams

Housing OfficeLos Alamos, NM

Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff

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.

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