Henri Becquerel
Henri Becquerel | |
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Photograph of Becquerel by Paul Nadar | |
| Born | Antoine Henri Becquerel 15 December 1852 |
| Died | 25 August 1908 (aged 55) |
| Education | Lycée Louis-le-Grand |
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| Known for | Discovering radioactivity (1896) |
| Children | Jean Becquerel |
| Father | Edmond Becquerel |
| Relatives | Antoine César Becquerel (grandfather) |
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| Honors | Officer of the Legion of Honour (1900) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Nuclear physics |
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| Thesis | Recherches sur l’absorption de la lumière dans les cristaux (Research on light absorption in crystals) (1888) |
| Doctoral advisor | Charles Friedel |
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Antoine Henri Becquerel (/ˌbɛkəˈrɛl/ bek-uh-REL; French: [ɑ̃twan ɑ̃ʁi bɛkʁɛl]; 15 December 1852 – 25 August 1908) was a French nuclear physicist who shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with Marie and Pierre Curie for his discovery of radioactivity.