Leona Woods

Leona Woods, also known as Leona Woods Marshall, was an American physicist and one of the few women to work on the Manhattan Project during World War II. Born on February 9, 1919, she made significant contributions to the field of nuclear physics, particularly in the development of early nuclear reactors. She earned her Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago, where she studied under notable physicist Enrico Fermi.