Marian Elaine Toms (May 17, 1917 – June 25, 2019)[1] was a Korean-born American physicist at the United States Naval Research Laboratory known for her experiments on photodisintegration of metals and for her Bibliography of Photonuclear Reactions.
[2] Toms became an undergraduate at Wilson College, a small Presbyterian school in Pennsylvania,[1] where she graduated in 1939.
[1] Her work with the WAVES included basic training at Smith College, and the study of radar at Harvard University, before going on active duty until 1946.
In that year she moved to the United States Navy Reserve and became a researcher at the United States Naval Research Laboratory,[4] working in the Betatron Section of the Nuclear Interactions Branch of the Nucleonics Division.
She spent 32 years in the Navy Reserve, from 1943 until her 1975 retirement from the Naval Research Laboratory as a commander.