Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 02/07/2026The nuclear physicist Harriet Brooks, who was probably the first person to notice the recoil of an atomic nucleus due to emissions during nuclear decay, was born #OTD in 1876. 🧪 ⚛️ 👩🔬 Credit: Notman Archives/Musée McCord 120659
Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Brooks was the first Canadian woman to work in the nascent field of nuclear physics. Her advisor and colleague Ernest Rutherford —she was his first grad student— lauded her work as a critical step in sorting out the mechanisms of nuclear decay. (2/n) 1110
