Henri Becquerel

Henri Becquerel
ForMemRS
Portrait by Paul Nadar, c. 1905
Born
Antoine Henri Becquerel

(1852-12-15)15 December 1852
Paris, Second French Empire
(now France)
Died25 August 1908(1908-08-25) (aged 55)
Le Croisic, Pays de la Loire, French Third Republic
(now France)
Alma materÉcole Polytechnique
École des Ponts et Chaussées
Known forDiscovery of radioactivity
ChildrenJean
FatherEdmond Becquerel
FamilyBecquerel
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
Institutions
ThesisRecherches sur l'absorption de la lumière
Doctoral advisorCharles Friedel[2]
Signature

Antoine Henri Becquerel ForMemRS (/ˌbɛkəˈrɛl/;[3] French: [ɑ̃twan ɑ̃ʁi bɛkʁɛl]; 15 December 1852 – 25 August 1908) was a French physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics and the discoverer of radioactivity. For this discovery, he, along with Pierre and Marie Curie,[4] received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics. The SI unit for radioactivity, the becquerel (Bq), is named after him.

  1. ^ "Fellows of the Royal Society". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 16 March 2015.
  2. ^ "Becquerel, Henri, 1852–1908". history.aip.org. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
  3. ^ "Becquerel". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
  4. ^ "The Discovery of Radioactivity". Berkeley Lab. Archived from the original on 15 June 2020. Retrieved 28 May 2012.