PHYSICIST

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leona Woods has received more than 192,368 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Leona Woods is the 689th most popular physicist (down from 650th in 2019), the 7,451st most popular biography from United States (down from 7,226th in 2019) and the 146th most popular American Physicist.

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  • 46.93

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Leona Woods ranks 689 out of 851. Before her are Isaak Kikoin, Robert R. Wilson, John Iliopoulos, Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert, Inga Fischer-Hjalmars, and Gregory Breit. After her are Kazuhiko Nishijima, Leonard Mlodinow, Alfred Ewing, Yvette Cauchois, Leonid Sedov, and Zoltán Lajos Bay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Leona Woods ranks 269. Before her are Frances Bay, Jocelyn Brando, Cláudio Santoro, Raúl Francisco Primatesta, Axel von dem Bussche, and Lance Macklin. After her are Strother Martin, Jan Flinterman, Annemarie Renger, Eric Thompson, Jacques Laurent, and Masao Takemoto. Among people deceased in 1986, Leona Woods ranks 218. Before her are Joyce Mansour, Tommy Douglas, Jean Cassou, Lyudmila Pakhomova, Oleg Goncharenko, and Alberto Zorrilla. After her are Noboru Terada, Ramón Alberto Villaverde, Enrique Tierno Galván, Volodymyr Pravyk, Samuel Zauber, and Neerja Bhanot.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Leona Woods ranks 7,451 out of 20,380. Before her are Marshmello (1992), Robert Harron (1893), Bart D. Ehrman (1955), Lawrence Summers (1954), Richard Armitage (1945), and John Marin (1870). After her are Wayne Newton (1942), Nancy Wilson (1954), Dylan Walsh (1963), Gladys George (1904), Wendy O. Williams (1949), and Edie Adams (1927).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Leona Woods ranks 146. Before her are Charles H. Bennett (1943), Ash Carter (1954), John C. Slater (1900), Frederick Seitz (1911), Edith Clarke (1883), and Robert R. Wilson (1914). After her are Leonard Mlodinow (1954), Alvin M. Weinberg (1915), Elda Emma Anderson (1899), Stuart Hameroff (1947), Marcia Neugebauer (1932), and Elliott H. Lieb (1932).

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