Leona Woods

American nuclear physicist (1919-1986) · United States · On the map · Scientists · Died at 67

Leona Harriet Woods, 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.

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