New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

PHYSICIST

Leona Woods

1919 - 1986

Photo of Leona Woods

Icon of person Leona Woods

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.

Memorability Metrics

  • 180k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Leona Woods by language


Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Leona Woods ranks 650 out of 717Before 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.

Most Popular Physicists in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Leona Woods ranks 248Before 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 198Before 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.

Others Born in 1919

Go to all Rankings

Others Deceased in 1986

Go to all Rankings

In United States

Among people born in United States, Leona Woods ranks 7,241 out of 18,182Before 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).

Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Leona Woods ranks 136Before 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).