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Antoine Henri Becquerel (15 December 1852 – 25 August 1908) was a French physicist, Nobel laureate, and the discoverer of radioactivity, for which he won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics (along with M...
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His father, Alexander Edmond Becquerel, was a Professor of Applied Physics and had done research on solar radiation and on phosphorescence, while his grandfather, Antoine César, had been a Fellow of the Royal Society and the inventor of an electrolytic method for extracting metals from their ores.
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Henri Becquerel Born 1852 Died 1908 Pierre Curie Born 1859 Died 1906 Marie Curie Born 1867 Died 1934 ... "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel"
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This article will focus on the efforts of four scientists: Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, Antoine Henri Becquerel, Marie Sklodowska Curie, and Ernest Rutherford. It emphasizes their contributions to the elucidation of radioactivity and the "key" experiments they performed pertaining to their discoveries.
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French physicist who was the son of physicist Edmond Becquerel, and father of physicist Jean Becquerel. ... Henri's son Jean Becquerel also became a physicist, and four generations of Becquerels were educated at the École Polytechnique and became professors of physics at the French Museum of Natural History.
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Antoine Henri Becquerel (1852-1908) ... On the rays emitted by phosphorescence ... In an earlier session, M. Chairman Henry announced that phosphorescent zinc sulfide placed in the path of rays emanating from a Crookes tube augmented the intensity of rays passing through the aluminum.
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Antoine-Henri Becquerel; (1852 - 1908); French physicist who discovered radioactivity through his investigations of uranium and other substances. In 1903 he shared the Nobel Prize for Physics with Pierre and Marie Curie. ... Becquerel reported this discovery to the Academie des Sciences at its session on February 24,
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Henri Becquerel (1852 - 1908); Henri Becquerel was born into a family of scientists. His grandfather had made important contributions in the field of electrochemistry while his father had investigated the phenomena of fluorescence and phosphorescence.
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