Harriet Brooks place of death Montreal
Personal life and death
In 1907, at the age of 31, Brooks married a wealthy engineer of the Montreal Power and Water Company former McGill physics instructor Frank Pitcher and settled in Montreal.  She had three children, two of whom tragically died in their teens. Her life revolved around domestic life, organizing the activities of household servants. She remained active in organizations of university women, but no longer did any work in the field of physics.Her sister Elizabeth married physicist Arthur Stewart Eve.Brooks died April 17, 1933, in Montreal at the age of 57 "of a ‘blood disorder’," presumably leukaemia caused by radiation exposure.The obituary in the The New York Times on April 18, 1933 credited her as the "Discoverer of the Recoil of a Radioactive Atom."Rutherford wrote a highly laudatory obituary in the journal Nature.
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