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.
