Wow!! That is just amazing. I love learning about this History!! Too outstanding!!

Leona Woods, later Leona Woods Marshall and Leona Marshall Libby, was 23 in 1942, the only woman present when Enrico Fermi's nuclear pile at the University of Chicago went critical and into the history books. She moved to Hanford in 1944 with her husband, fellow physicist John Marshall. Marshall Libby was one of the few women scientists in the Manhattan Project and probably the most well known. Even so, during an interview she laughed off questions about what it was like to be so distinctive. She did mention DuPont had been thoughtful enough to provide her with a private bathroom at the reactor buildings.

For the interview transcript: http://manhattanprojectvoices.org/oral-histories/leona-marshall-libbys-interview

Leona Marshall Libby's Interview

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Leona Marshall Libby's Interview

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