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Ele Willoughby@minouette.bsky.social |
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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She measured its atomic mass. Brooks pursued PhD at Bryn Mawr. She won President's European Fellowship to go spend 1902-1903 in Cambridge working with J.J. Thomson who neglected her. She wildly underestimated her skills & was hindered by Thomson's erroneous belief radioactivity was a chemical 🧵4/
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