The McGill Physicist Behind the Periodic Table

Nature recently published an article focusing on the often not mentioned women behind the periodic table. One of them is Harriet Brooks who worked together with Ernest Rutherford at McGill University. In 1901 she provided the first evidence of that new elements can be produced by radioactive decay.

Read more about Harriet and several other women who worked to make our underatnding of the elements what it is today:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00287-7