Portrait of Harriet Brooks. A stylishly dressed woman in a black and white picture.

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   Canadian physicist Harriet Brooks was born #OTD in 1876.

   Harriet Brooks is recognized as one of the first female nuclear physicists and a pioneer in the field of radioactivity. Under Ernest Rutherford's mentorship, Brooks conducted groundbreaking research on radioactivity. Her work on the "emanation" of radium was pivotal in identifying radon, a noble gas, as one of the decay products of radium.

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Brooks

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