SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Karen Silkwood

1946 - 1974

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Karen Gay Silkwood (February 19, 1946 – November 13, 1974) was an American laboratory technician and labor union activist known for reporting concerns about corporate practices related to health and safety in a nuclear facility. She worked at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron Fuel Fabrication Site in Crescent, Oklahoma, making plutonium pellets. She was the first woman ever elected to the union's negotiating team at Kerr-McGee. After testifying to the Atomic Energy Commission about her safety concerns, she was found to have plutonium contamination in her body and her home. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2024). Karen Silkwood is the 649th most popular social activist (down from 545th in 2024), the 11,984th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,148th in 2019) and the 106th most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Karen Silkwood ranks 649 out of 840. Before her are Ingrid Newkirk, Elizaveta Glinka, Lucy Burns, Charlotte Despard, Jan Egeland, and Jón Páll Sigmarsson. After her are Ryan White, Mukhtar Mai, Tank Man, Jared Taylor, Norma Cruz, and William Smith O'Brien.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Karen Silkwood ranks 746. Before her are Roberto Chale, Skip Spence, Attila Abonyi, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Jean-Claude Désir, and Robert L. Gibson. After her are Ed Markey, Jeffrey Hammond, Rick Adelman, Patrick Manning, John Gribbin, and Michael Clarke. Among people deceased in 1974, Karen Silkwood ranks 249. Before her are Richard Long, Begum Akhtar, Patricia Collinge, Clive Brook, Ralph Bishop, and Maureen Gardner. After her are Edna Best, Margaret Morse Nice, Bill Aston, Harry Carney, Ilona Massey, and Tina Brooks.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Karen Silkwood ranks 11,983 out of 20,380. Before her are Robert L. Gibson (1946), Lowell Sherman (1888), and Glenn Greenwald (1967). After her are Kawhi Leonard (1991), Earl Van Dorn (1820), Ed Markey (1946), David Ramsey (1971), Danny Hodge (1932), Trick-Trick (1973), Louise Fazenda (1895), Pauline Bush (1886), and Michael McClure (1932).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Karen Silkwood ranks 106. Before her are Jake Angeli (1988), Curtis Yarvin (1973), Alva Belmont (1853), Lillian Wald (1867), Frank Kameny (1925), and Lucy Burns (1879). After her are Ryan White (1971), Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (1842), Fannie Lou Hamer (1917), Phoebe Hearst (1842), Mario Savio (1942), and Virginia Giuffre (1983).

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