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Legacy
In the 1980s, the importance of Harriet Brooks' contributions to physics became recognized as foundational work in the field of nuclear science. She was the first person to show that the radioactive substance emitted from thorium was a gas with molecular weight of 40–100, a discovery crucial to the determination of transmutation of elements in radioactive decay.In 2002, 69 years after her death she was inducted into the Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame.Canadian Nuclear Laboratories considered her research of radon and actinium pioneering, and her brief research career exceedingly accomplished. In 2016, 110 years after she finished her career, the Harriet Brooks Building, a nuclear research laboratory At Chalk River Laboratories was named after her.
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