🎧 Unfazed by radioactivity, hiding her pregnancy. Meet Leona Woods, the only woman present for the first successful nuclear chain reaction. 🔗 Listen to this episode of the Lost Women of the Manhattan Project from LostWomenofSci and prx at
In 1942 physicist Leona Woods was 23 years old and the only female scientist hired onto Enrico Fermi’s team at the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago. She was also the only woman present for the world’s first successful nuclear chain reaction. Amid everything, she managed to conceal her pregnancy until two days before her baby was born in 1944.[New to Lost Women of Science? You can listen to our most recent Short here and our most recent multi-episode season here.
SL Sanger: But I, I was just curious if you had any particular – if anybody took note of the fact you were a woman. Did you have any problems, I mean, or were you treated differently?Erica Huang: This is Leona Woods Marshall Libby. Later known by the names Leona Woods Marshall and Leona Marshall Libby.Erica Huang: And, as interviewer S. L. Sanger points out in this interview from 1986, a woman.
Erica Huang: When Leona says she “takes it kindly,” she's not kidding. She seemed completely unfazed by this event. Erica Huang: Leona survived the radiation, and having the child and her work on the Chicago Pile paved the way for the atomic bombs to be built and dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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