Happy Birthday Harriet Brooks

Happy Birthday Harriet Brooks! she was born in 1876 in Exeter, Ontario. Brooks studied physics at McGill University and became the first woman to earn a master's degree in any field. She worked with Ernest Rutherford discovering radon and helping to establish that radioactive decay entails the transmutation of one element into another: http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~cwp/Phase2/Brooks,_Harriet@842580299.html

Canada’s first female nuclear physicist: http://publications.mcgill.ca/reporter/2011/03/women%E2%80%99s-day-profile-remembering-harriet-brooks-canada%E2%80%99s-first-woman-nuclear-physicist/