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After completing a master's degree at McGill University under Rutherford's tutelage, Brooks continued her post-graduate work at Bryn Mawr College and Cambridge University, eventually returning to McGill to work again with Rutherford. In 1904 she left Canada to work at Barnard College in New York City, and then with Curie in Paris. Brooks had a significant career as a nuclear scientist, but her success was hampered by the fact that she was a woman. She eventually married and left research. Her premature death at age fifty-six was probably related to her work with radiation.
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Marelene F. Rayner-Canham is Instructional Assistant of Physics, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Memorial University.
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"Fills a significant gap, not only in the contribution of women to science but for the accurate representation of the early history of the theory of the transmutation of elements." M.H. Chaplin, Choice.
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- PublisherMcgill-Queens University Press
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0773512543
- ISBN 13 9780773512542
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages204
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