Nuclear physicist. Leona Harriet Woods Marshall Libby received her PhD from the University of Chicago (1943); Thesis: I. On the Silicon Oxide Bands. II. Note on Spin Doubling in the Doublet Sigma States of CO+. She was one of the youngest scientists and only woman physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II, which resulted in the development of the atomic bombs used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. At various times was faculty member at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), New York University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Colorado at Boulder. Widow of Nobel laureate in physics Willard F. Libby (1908-1980). Publications included First Environmental Problems of Timely Importance (1970); Fifty Mor Timely Problems of the Environment (1971); Uranium People (1979); Collected Papers: Willard F. Libby (co-editor, 1981); Solary System Physics & Chemistry; and Papers for the Public-Willard F. Libby (editor, 1981); Tritium and Radiocarbon-Willard F. Libby (co-editor, 1981); and, Past Climates: Tree thermometers, Commodities, and People (1983).
Married to John Marshall, II; then, Willard F. Libby. Leona Harriet Woods Marshall Libby was the daughter of Weightstill Amos Woods and Mary Louise Holderness Woods.
Married to John Marshall, II; then, Willard F. Libby. Leona Harriet Woods Marshall Libby was the daughter of Weightstill Amos Woods and Mary Louise Holderness Woods.
Nuclear physicist. Leona Harriet Woods Marshall Libby received her PhD from the University of Chicago (1943); Thesis: I. On the Silicon Oxide Bands. II. Note on Spin Doubling in the Doublet Sigma States of CO+. She was one of the youngest scientists and only woman physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II, which resulted in the development of the atomic bombs used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. At various times was faculty member at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), New York University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Colorado at Boulder. Widow of Nobel laureate in physics Willard F. Libby (1908-1980). Publications included First Environmental Problems of Timely Importance (1970); Fifty Mor Timely Problems of the Environment (1971); Uranium People (1979); Collected Papers: Willard F. Libby (co-editor, 1981); Solary System Physics & Chemistry; and Papers for the Public-Willard F. Libby (editor, 1981); Tritium and Radiocarbon-Willard F. Libby (co-editor, 1981); and, Past Climates: Tree thermometers, Commodities, and People (1983).
Married to John Marshall, II; then, Willard F. Libby. Leona Harriet Woods Marshall Libby was the daughter of Weightstill Amos Woods and Mary Louise Holderness Woods.
Married to John Marshall, II; then, Willard F. Libby. Leona Harriet Woods Marshall Libby was the daughter of Weightstill Amos Woods and Mary Louise Holderness Woods.
