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Antoine Henri Becquerel
Antoine Henri Becquerel was a French experimental physicist who shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with Marie and Pierre Curie for his discovery of radioactivity.
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science · French physicist (1852–1908) · physicist · engineer · university teacher · nuclear physicist · chemist · also Antoine Henri Becquerel, Henri Becquerel, Becquerel
Born 15 December 1852 · Died 25 August 1908 · Q41269
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1908· 5 entries
Died 1908-08-25.
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Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1908).
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Career landmark: Perpetual Secretary (1908–1908).
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“Opis: w liście do Williama Henry’ego Bragga.”
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Career landmark: president of the French Academy of Sciences (1908–1908).
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1906· 1 entry
Won Helmholtz Medal (1906).
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1905· 1 entry
Won Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science (1905).
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1903· 2 entries
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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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1903).
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1900· 1 entry
Becquerel measured the properties of beta particles, and he realized that they had the same measurements as high speed electrons leaving the nucleus
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1897· 1 entry
Career landmark: president (1897).
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1894· 1 entry
Became chief engineer in the Department of Roads and Bridges
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1883· 1 entry
Awarded La Caze Prize of the Academy of Sciences (1883).
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1882· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1882).
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1878· 1 entry
Becquerel became an assistant at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, where in 1892 he was appointed Professor of Applied Physics
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1874· 1 entry
Studied at École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (1874).
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1872· 1 entry
Studied at École polytechnique (1872).
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1868· 1 entry
Edmond Becquerel published a book, La lumière: ses causes et ses effets (Light: Its causes and its effects)
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1857· 1 entry
When Abel Niépce de Saint-Victor, who was investigating photography under Michel Eugène Chevreul, observed that uranium salts emitted radiation that could darken photographic emulsions
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1852· 1 entry
Born 1852-12-15.
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