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Harriet Brooks: Pioneer Nuclear Scientist

Harriet Brooks: Pioneer Nuclear Scientist

Rayner-Canham, Geoffrey W.
Rayner-Canham, Marelene F.

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ISBN10: 0773508813
ISBN13: 9780773508811
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: Feb 7 1992
Pages: 204
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.37 Depth: 9.33
Language: English

Harriet Brooks (1876-1933) was one of the first Canadian researchers in the field of radioactivity. Ernest Rutherford called her the best woman scientist in the field next to Marie Curie. She worked with Rutherford, J.J. Thompson, and Curie, and her achievements include identifying emanation (radon) and discovering the recoil of the radioactive atom. Yet, in spite of her contributions, this is the first biography of Brooks' life and work.

After completing a master's degree at McGill University under Rutherford's tutelage, Brooks continued her post-graduate work at Bryn Mawr College and Cambridge University, eventually returning to McGill to work again with Rutherford. In 1904 she left Canada to work at Barnard College in New York City, and then with Curie in Paris. Brooks had a significant career as a nuclear scientist, but her success was hampered by the fact that she was a woman. She eventually married and left research. Her premature death at age fifty-six was probably related to her work with radiation.

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