HARRIET BROOKS


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See {628477} for the Dean’s answer. Professor Brooks was about to be married and under the mores of the day and Barnard’s rules, married women were not allowed to work. They should be at home taking care of husband and children. Ironically, there are still a few conservatives who advocate a return to the old policy.


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Harriet Brooks
Harriet Brooks
  • Born: July 2, 1876
  • Died: April 17, 1933
  • Nationality: Canadian
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Harriet Brooks 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. She was among the first persons to discover radon and to try to determine its atomic mass.