1919 - 1986
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 178,561 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Leona Woods is the 650th most popular physicist (up from 666th in 2019), the 7,241st most popular biography from United States (up from 8,460th in 2019) and the 136th most popular American Physicist.
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Among physicists, Leona Woods ranks 650 out of 717. Before her are Zoltán Lajos Bay, César Lattes, Nikolay Umov, Tom Kibble, Bruno Zumino, and Shoichi Sakata. After her are Aleksandr Andronov, Peter Mark Roget, Lisa Randall, Gregory Breit, Hedwig Kohn, and John Aitken.
1900 - 1992
HPI: 45.62
Rank: 644
1924 - 2005
HPI: 45.58
Rank: 645
1846 - 1915
HPI: 45.58
Rank: 646
1932 - 2016
HPI: 45.55
Rank: 647
1923 - 2014
HPI: 45.55
Rank: 648
1911 - 1970
HPI: 45.51
Rank: 649
1919 - 1986
HPI: 45.49
Rank: 650
1901 - 1952
HPI: 45.47
Rank: 651
1779 - 1869
HPI: 45.44
Rank: 652
1962 - Present
HPI: 45.43
Rank: 653
1899 - 1981
HPI: 45.42
Rank: 654
1887 - 1964
HPI: 45.33
Rank: 655
1839 - 1919
HPI: 45.27
Rank: 656
Among people born in 1919, Leona Woods ranks 248. Before her are Veikko Huhtanen, Frank Piasecki, Raúl Francisco Primatesta, Jacques Laurent, George Cadle Price, and Gisela Uhlen. After her are Grisha Filipov, Pauline Kael, Forrest Tucker, Masao Takemoto, Jan Flinterman, and Jorge de Sena. Among people deceased in 1986, Leona Woods ranks 198. Before her are Aleksei Arbuzov, Heinz Strehl, Enrique Tierno Galván, Gardner Fox, John Braine, and Eino Leino. After her are Jackson Scholz, Reinhold Münzenberg, Forrest Tucker, Blanche Sweet, Alicia Moreau de Justo, and Jo Gartner.
1919 - 1976
HPI: 45.81
Rank: 242
1919 - 2008
HPI: 45.76
Rank: 243
1919 - 2006
HPI: 45.73
Rank: 244
1919 - 2000
HPI: 45.69
Rank: 245
1919 - 2011
HPI: 45.67
Rank: 246
1919 - 2007
HPI: 45.50
Rank: 247
1919 - 1986
HPI: 45.49
Rank: 248
1919 - 1994
HPI: 45.48
Rank: 249
1919 - 2001
HPI: 45.47
Rank: 250
1919 - 1986
HPI: 45.40
Rank: 251
1919 - 2007
HPI: 45.39
Rank: 252
1919 - 1992
HPI: 45.32
Rank: 253
1919 - 1978
HPI: 45.29
Rank: 254
1908 - 1986
HPI: 45.79
Rank: 192
1938 - 1986
HPI: 45.78
Rank: 193
1918 - 1986
HPI: 45.71
Rank: 194
1911 - 1986
HPI: 45.65
Rank: 195
1922 - 1986
HPI: 45.64
Rank: 196
1891 - 1986
HPI: 45.58
Rank: 197
1919 - 1986
HPI: 45.49
Rank: 198
1897 - 1986
HPI: 45.44
Rank: 199
1909 - 1986
HPI: 45.43
Rank: 200
1919 - 1986
HPI: 45.40
Rank: 201
1896 - 1986
HPI: 45.32
Rank: 202
1885 - 1986
HPI: 45.26
Rank: 203
1954 - 1986
HPI: 45.20
Rank: 204
Among people born in United States, Leona Woods ranks 7,241 out of 18,182. Before her are Kasey Rogers (1925), Campbell Scott (1961), Christopher Lasch (1932), Gary L. Francione (1954), Paul A. Rothchild (1935), and Wendie Malick (1950). After her are Madeleine L'Engle (1918), Steve Lawrence (1935), Carl Benjamin Boyer (1906), Steve James (1952), Bernard Hopkins (1965), and Meredith Baxter (1947).
1925 - 2006
HPI: 45.51
Rank: 7,235
1961 - Present
HPI: 45.50
Rank: 7,236
1932 - 1994
HPI: 45.50
Rank: 7,237
1954 - Present
HPI: 45.49
Rank: 7,238
1935 - 1995
HPI: 45.49
Rank: 7,239
1950 - Present
HPI: 45.49
Rank: 7,240
1919 - 1986
HPI: 45.49
Rank: 7,241
1918 - 2007
HPI: 45.49
Rank: 7,242
1935 - Present
HPI: 45.49
Rank: 7,243
1906 - 1976
HPI: 45.48
Rank: 7,244
1952 - 1993
HPI: 45.48
Rank: 7,245
1965 - Present
HPI: 45.48
Rank: 7,246
1947 - Present
HPI: 45.48
Rank: 7,247
Among physicists born in United States, Leona Woods ranks 136. Before her are Nicholas Metropolis (1915), Frederick Seitz (1911), Frank Oppenheimer (1912), Leo Kadanoff (1937), Lee Smolin (1955), and Edward Condon (1902). After her are Lisa Randall (1962), Ash Carter (1954), Joseph Polchinski (1954), Robert L. Forward (1932), Robert R. Wilson (1914), and Gerald Guralnik (1936).
1915 - 1999
HPI: 46.55
Rank: 130
1911 - 2008
HPI: 46.46
Rank: 131
1912 - 1985
HPI: 46.33
Rank: 132
1937 - 2015
HPI: 46.29
Rank: 133
1955 - Present
HPI: 45.94
Rank: 134
1902 - 1974
HPI: 45.74
Rank: 135
1919 - 1986
HPI: 45.49
Rank: 136
1962 - Present
HPI: 45.43
Rank: 137
1954 - 2022
HPI: 44.78
Rank: 138
1954 - 2018
HPI: 44.63
Rank: 139
1932 - 2002
HPI: 44.52
Rank: 140
1914 - 2000
HPI: 44.34
Rank: 141
1936 - 2014
HPI: 44.34
Rank: 142