1876 - 1933
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 comparable to Marie Curie in the calibre of her aptitude. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harriet Brooks has received more than 52,796 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Harriet Brooks is the 657th most popular physicist, the 436th most popular biography from Canada and the 7th most popular Canadian Physicist.
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Among physicists, Harriet Brooks ranks 657 out of 721. Before her are Robert L. Forward, Charlotte Froese Fischer, Lisa Randall, Bernard Lovell, Frederick Seitz, and Max Tegmark. After her are Abraham Pais, Jürgen Kurths, Alfred Ewing, Karl Taylor Compton, C. V. Boys, and Rolf-Dieter Heuer.
1932 - 2002
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 651
1929 - Present
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 652
1962 - Present
HPI: 56.33
Rank: 653
1913 - 2012
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 654
1911 - 2008
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 655
1967 - Present
HPI: 56.26
Rank: 656
1876 - 1933
HPI: 56.22
Rank: 657
1918 - 2000
HPI: 56.14
Rank: 658
1953 - Present
HPI: 56.09
Rank: 659
1855 - 1935
HPI: 56.08
Rank: 660
1887 - 1954
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 661
1855 - 1944
HPI: 55.99
Rank: 662
1948 - Present
HPI: 55.94
Rank: 663
Among people born in 1876, Harriet Brooks ranks 153. Before her are Sidney Robinson, Edith Abbott, Stan Rowley, H. B. Warner, Lionel Tertis, and Giuseppe De Luca. After her are Gregory Mathews, Con Leahy, Clara Blandick, Zitkala-Sa, Carl Ruggles, and James Larkin. Among people deceased in 1933, Harriet Brooks ranks 113. Before her are Ring Lardner, Jack Pickford, Ismael Montes, Edward Dillon, Henry van Dyke Jr., and Saliamonas Banaitis. After her are Gustavo Jiménez, Eddie Lang, Spottiswoode Aitken, Daphne Akhurst, Ormond Stone, and John Joly.
1876 - 1959
HPI: 57.25
Rank: 147
1876 - 1957
HPI: 56.82
Rank: 148
1876 - 1924
HPI: 56.79
Rank: 149
1876 - 1958
HPI: 56.75
Rank: 150
1876 - 1975
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 151
1876 - 1950
HPI: 56.25
Rank: 152
1876 - 1933
HPI: 56.22
Rank: 153
1876 - 1949
HPI: 55.83
Rank: 154
1876 - 1921
HPI: 55.68
Rank: 155
1876 - 1962
HPI: 55.19
Rank: 156
1876 - 1938
HPI: 55.11
Rank: 157
1876 - 1971
HPI: 54.72
Rank: 158
1876 - 1947
HPI: 54.26
Rank: 159
1885 - 1933
HPI: 57.28
Rank: 107
1896 - 1933
HPI: 57.19
Rank: 108
1861 - 1933
HPI: 57.12
Rank: 109
1879 - 1933
HPI: 56.29
Rank: 110
1852 - 1933
HPI: 56.29
Rank: 111
1866 - 1933
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 112
1876 - 1933
HPI: 56.22
Rank: 113
1886 - 1933
HPI: 56.15
Rank: 114
1902 - 1933
HPI: 55.69
Rank: 115
1868 - 1933
HPI: 55.07
Rank: 116
1903 - 1933
HPI: 54.83
Rank: 117
1847 - 1933
HPI: 54.46
Rank: 118
1857 - 1933
HPI: 54.41
Rank: 119
Among people born in Canada, Harriet Brooks ranks 436 out of 1,130. Before her are Robert J. Sawyer (1960), Scotty Bowman (1933), Kathleen Robertson (1973), Mackenzie Davis (1987), Thomas Middleditch (1982), and Rick Genest (1985). After her are Paul Churchland (1942), Sam Langford (1886), Deryck Whibley (1980), Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook (1879), Robert Benson (1894), and Barbara Wagner (1938).
1960 - Present
HPI: 56.26
Rank: 430
1933 - Present
HPI: 56.26
Rank: 431
1973 - Present
HPI: 56.25
Rank: 432
1987 - Present
HPI: 56.25
Rank: 433
1982 - Present
HPI: 56.24
Rank: 434
1985 - 2018
HPI: 56.23
Rank: 435
1876 - 1933
HPI: 56.22
Rank: 436
1942 - Present
HPI: 56.22
Rank: 437
1886 - 1956
HPI: 56.22
Rank: 438
1980 - Present
HPI: 56.22
Rank: 439
1879 - 1964
HPI: 56.20
Rank: 440
1894 - 1965
HPI: 56.18
Rank: 441
1938 - Present
HPI: 56.18
Rank: 442
Among physicists born in Canada, Harriet Brooks ranks 7. Before her are Willard Boyle (1924), Richard E. Taylor (1929), Jim Peebles (1935), Bertram Brockhouse (1918), Louis Slotin (1910), and Donna Strickland (1959).
1924 - 2011
HPI: 72.25
Rank: 1
1929 - 2018
HPI: 71.41
Rank: 2
1935 - Present
HPI: 70.96
Rank: 3
1918 - 2003
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 4
1910 - 1946
HPI: 65.18
Rank: 5
1959 - Present
HPI: 63.69
Rank: 6
1876 - 1933
HPI: 56.22
Rank: 7