Female #Astrophysicist Helped Build 1st #AtomicBomb
Today marks 75 years since the 1st use of #nuclear weapons in #war-time, when the #US dropped the 1st atomic bomb on #Hiroshima, #Japan. One of the very few female #scientists who worked on the #ManhattanProject went on to become a researcher in high-energy #physics, #astrophysics, #cosmology, & diatomic molecular #spectroscopy.
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Photograph of Leona Woods Marshall at the University of Chicago on 1946 December 2.
(Image Sources: Wikipedia.org, By Argonne National Laboratory — Leona Woods Marshall Libby, Uranium People, pp. 182-183, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25600002)