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Harriet Brooks

1876 - 1933

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Harriet Brooks (July 2, 1876 – April 17, 1933) was the first Canadian female nuclear physicist. She is most famous for her research in radioactivity. She discovered atomic recoil, and transmutation of elements in radioactive decay. Ernest Rutherford, who guided her graduate work, regarded her as comparable to Marie Curie in the calibre of her aptitude. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Harriet Brooks is the 625th most popular physicist (up from 639th in 2019), the 352nd most popular biography from Canada (down from 336th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Canadian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Harriet Brooks ranks 625 out of 851. Before her are Jean Becquerel, Franco Rasetti, Abraham Alikhanov, Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Charles Kittel, and Carl August von Steinheil. After her are Max Wien, Walther Müller, Georg Hermann Quincke, Ole Jacob Broch, Robert R. Wilson, and Georges-Louis Le Sage.

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Among people born in 1876, Harriet Brooks ranks 153. Before her are Olav Duun, Walter Burley Griffin, Ellsworth Huntington, Safiya Zaghloul, Gwen John, and Stan Rowley. After her are Alaiza Pashkevich, Thomas Madsen-Mygdal, Albert Bruce Jackson, Ameen Rihani, Alexandros Papanastasiou, and Henri Hérouin. Among people deceased in 1933, Harriet Brooks ranks 113. Before her are Yisrael Meir Kagan, Prince Aribert of Anhalt, Steponas Darius, Kamini Roy, Renée Adorée, and Jean Cugnot. After her are Kote Marjanishvili, Mykola Khvylovy, Sophia Parnok, George Moore, Baltasar Brum, and Archibald Sayce.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Harriet Brooks ranks 352 out of 1,622. Before her are James LaBrie (1963), Michael Ignatieff (1947), Arthur Meighen (1874), John McCrae (1872), Kevin Owens (1984), and Dan Levy (1983). After her are August Schellenberg (1936), Naomi Klein (1970), Linda Thorson (1947), Natalya Neidhart (1982), Émile Nelligan (1879), and Duncan McNaughton (1910).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Canada

Among physicists born in Canada, Harriet Brooks ranks 8. Before her are Bertram Brockhouse (1918), Willard Boyle (1924), Jim Peebles (1935), Louis Slotin (1910), Donna Strickland (1959), and Arthur Jeffrey Dempster (1886). After her are Paul Corkum (1943), and Sylvia Fedoruk (1927).

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