A grainy, black and white photo of Harriet Brooks. Her fair is short and she wears a black, poofy dress with a high collar. She is looking to her left.

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1. Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 16:58:28 UTC Robert McNees

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   Rutherford’s investigations into elemental transmutation would inspire Leo Szilárd’s idea of producing energy via nuclear chain reactions.

   Besides his discoveries, Rutherford trained several notable scientists. I already mentioned Niels Bohr, Otto Hahn, and Hans Geiger.

   A lesser known but very important scientist he trained was Harriet Brooks. She was Rutherford's first grad student, and probably the first human to notice the recoil of an atomic nucleus due to emissions during nuclear decay