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Ele Willoughby@minouette.bsky.social |
Happy birthday to #physicist Harriet Brooks (1876 - 1933) who discovered atomic recoil, Radon & recognized radioactive elements could undergo chains of transmutations into a series of new elements.👩🏼🔬🎢🐡🧪#histsci
She was Rutherford’s 1st grad student at McGill. After publishing her results 🧵1/n
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Ele Willoughby
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in 1899 she completed her MSc in 1901 on "Damping of Electrical Oscillations," before embarking on radioactivity research. Assigned to puzzle of Th "emanation" she discovered some of earliest evidence of transmutation! Co-authored with Rutherford, "The New Gas from Radium" in 1901. It was Radon.🧵
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David ALBERTO
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Excellent thread!🙏
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