# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/harriet-brooks
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:19:12.475Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/harriet-brooks"
name: "Harriet Brooks"
slug: "harriet-brooks"
description: "Harriet Brooks 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. Ernest Rutherford, who guided her graduate work, regarded her as comparable to Marie Curie in the calibre of her aptitude. She was among the first persons to discover radon and to try to determine its atomic mass."
tagline: "Canadian nuclear physicist (1876–1933)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Harriet_Brooks_-_McCord_Museum_(II-123880).jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1876-07-02"
deathDate: "1933-04-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.533596837944664
  historical:           17.48585466666667
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump