![]() ![]() Leona Woods, born in 1919 to Weightstill Arno Woods and Mary Holderness Woods in Proviso, Illinois, was an exceptional student who graduated from high school at the age of fourteen and completed her bachelor’s degree at the University of Chicago in 1938, at nineteen. The plutonium produced at Hanford was used in the “Trinity Test” of July 1945 and the detonation of the “Fat Man” bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan in August that year. ![]() ![]() Her creation of the boron trifluoride counter and role in the diagnosis of the B-Reactor's xenon poisoning were key in the production of plutonium at Hanford Engineer Works. Leona Woods Marshall Libby was the only female member of the team that built the world’s first nuclear reactor-the Chicago Pile-and the only woman present when the reactor went critical. Leona Woods Marshall Libby and John Marshall at the International Conference on High Energy Physics, 1952.Īmerican Institute of Physics, Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Marshak Collection. ![]()
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