Harriet Brooks, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian nuclear physicist
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Place of Birth: Exeter, Ontario, Canada
About Harriet Brooks
- Harriet Brooks (July 2, 1876 – April 17, 1933) was the first Canadian female nuclear physicist.
- She is most famous for her research on nuclear transmutations and radioactivity.
- Ernest Rutherford, who guided her graduate work, regarded her as being next to Marie Curie in the calibre of her aptitude.
- She was among the first persons to discover radon and to try to determine its atomic mass.
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