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# Harriet Brooks

(1876–1933)   Physicist

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Harriet Brooks was a physicist.

## Quick Facts About Harriet Brooks

Born July 2, 1876

Died April 17, 1933

Profession Physicist

## About Harriet Brooks

Canadian nuclear physicist (1876–1933)... \| Harriet Brooks was a Canadian 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 ap

##  Quotes by Harriet Brooks

> [“I think it is a duty I owe to my profession and to my sex to show that a woman has a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-brooks/i-think-it-is-a-duty-i-owe-to-my-profession-and-to-my-sex-to-show/)

[Harriet Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harriet-brooks/)

[Dignity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dignity/)

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> [I think it is a duty I owe to my profession and to my sex to show that a woman has a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-brooks/i-think-it-is-a-duty-i-owe-to-my-profession-and-to-my-sex-to-show-2/)

[Harriet Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harriet-brooks/)

[Abandon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/abandon/)

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