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Antoine César Becquerel
Antoine César Becquerel was a French scientist and a pioneer in the study of electric and luminescent phenomena.
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science · French scientist (1788–1878) · physicist · university teacher · engineer · politician · chemist · also Antoine César Becquerel, Antoine Cesar Becquerel, Antoine Cæsar Becquerel, Antoine Caesar Becquerel, Becquerel
Born 7 March 1788 · Died 18 January 1878 · Q318004
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1903· 1 entry
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his discovery of spontaneous radioactivity.
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1878· 1 entry
Died 1878-01-18.
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1865· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (1865).
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1847· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the general council (1847–1870).
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1838· 1 entry
Career landmark: president of the French Academy of Sciences (1838–1838).
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1837· 3 entries
Won Copley Medal (1837).
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Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1837).
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Became a Fellow of the Royal Society, and received its Copley Medal for his various memoirs on electricity, and particularly for those on the production of metallic sulphurets and sulphur by electrolysis
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1829· 1 entry
Invented a constant-current electrochemical cell, the forerunner of the Daniell cell
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1825· 1 entry
Invented a differential galvanometer for the accurate measurement of electrical resistance
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1820· 1 entry
Following the work of René Just Haüy, he found that pressure can induce electricity in every material, attributing the effect to surface interactions (this is not piezoelectricity)
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1808· 1 entry
And saw active service with the imperial troops in Spain from 1810 to 1812, and again in France in 1814
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1788· 1 entry
Born 1788-03-07.
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