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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harriet Brooks has received more than 94,875 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Harriet Brooks is the 639th most popular physicist (up from 693rd in 2019), the 336th most popular biography from Canada (up from 481st in 2019) and the 8th most popular Canadian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Harriet Brooks ranks 639 out of 851. Before her are Julius Edgar Lilienfeld, Francis Hauksbee, Gerard K. O'Neill, Alfred Landé, Tullio Regge, and Victor J. Stenger. After her are Gerald Guralnik, Isaak Khalatnikov, Charles Stark Draper, Ralph Kronig, Ferdinand Monoyer, and Frederick Guthrie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Harriet Brooks ranks 152. Before her are John Marshall, Flora Sandes, Alfred Stock, Marvin Hart, Nikolay Burdenko, and Gwen John. After her are Stan Rowley, Alexandros Papanastasiou, Thomas Madsen-Mygdal, Paul Rivet, Alexandre Tuffère, and Pyotr Konchalovsky. Among people deceased in 1933, Harriet Brooks ranks 112. Before her are Kote Marjanishvili, Olaf Bull, Renée Adorée, János Hadik, Alfréd Haar, and Alexander von Krobatin. After her are F. Holland Day, Anita Rée, Otto Stapf, Baltasar Brum, George Moore, and Ludwig Schlesinger.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Harriet Brooks ranks 336 out of 1,622. Before her are Susan Clark (1943), Mary Harron (1953), Rick Danko (1943), Carole Laure (1948), Jacques Villeneuve (1953), and Jacques Plante (1929). After her are Michael Sarrazin (1940), George London (1920), Mary Pierce (1975), Samuel Cunard (1787), George Chuvalo (1937), and William Kahan (1933).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Canada

Among physicists born in Canada, Harriet Brooks ranks 8. Before her are Richard E. Taylor (1929), Bertram Brockhouse (1918), Jim Peebles (1935), Donna Strickland (1959), Louis Slotin (1910), and Arthur Jeffrey Dempster (1886). After her are Paul Corkum (1943), and Sylvia Fedoruk (1927).

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