Harriet Brooks

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What Wikipedia says

Harriet Brooks (July 2, 1876 – April 17, 1933) 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.

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