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Leona Woods

1919 - 1986

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Leona Harriet Woods (August 9, 1919 – November 10, 1986), later known as Leona Woods Marshall and Leona Woods Marshall Libby, was an American physicist who helped build the first nuclear reactor and the first atomic bomb. At age 23, she was the youngest and only female member of the team which built and experimented with the world's first nuclear reactor (then called a pile), Chicago Pile-1, in a project led by her mentor Enrico Fermi. In particular, Woods was instrumental in the construction and then utilization of geiger counters for analysis during experimentation. She was the only woman present when the reactor went critical. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leona Woods is the 535th most popular physicist (up from 690th in 2019), the 4,994th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,451st in 2019) and the 111th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Leona Woods ranks 535 out of 851. Before her are Fabiola Gianotti, Heinz von Foerster, Leonid Mandelstam, Vikram Sarabhai, Gustave Trouvé, and Maurice Karnaugh. After her are Ludvig Lorenz, August Beer, Arthur Jeffrey Dempster, William Robert Grove, Ira Sprague Bowen, and Joseph Larmor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Leona Woods ranks 173. Before her are Oswaldo Guayasamín, Antonio Aguilar, Fritz Muliar, Carole Landis, Vikram Sarabhai, and Dan O'Herlihy. After her are Angelo Felici, Gene Barry, François Bordes, Pief Panofsky, Hans Hass, and Rocky Graziano. Among people deceased in 1986, Leona Woods ranks 136. Before her are Valerian Zorin, Vasily Ignatenko, Josef Kammhuber, Lili Kraus, Teddy Wilson, and Helen B. Taussig. After her are Henry Russell, David Cooper, Anatoly Marchenko, Sandro Puppo, Pasquale Festa Campanile, and Broderick Crawford.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Leona Woods ranks 4,994 out of 20,380. Before her are Albert Gutterson (1887), Steve Franken (1932), Kelly Rutherford (1968), Maurice Karnaugh (1924), Lena Horne (1917), and Evan Williams (1972). After her are Kevin Young (1966), Howard Schultz (1953), Cameron Boyce (1999), Sasha Alexander (1973), Billy Herrington (1969), and L. Q. Jones (1927).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Leona Woods ranks 111. Before her are Robert Serber (1909), Jeremiah P. Ostriker (1937), Lester Germer (1896), Clyde Cowan (1919), David J. Griffiths (1942), and Maurice Karnaugh (1924). After her are Ira Sprague Bowen (1898), Gerard K. O'Neill (1927), Grote Reber (1911), Gene Amdahl (1922), Robert H. Dicke (1916), and Philip Morrison (1915).

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