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Antoine Henri Becquerel Quotes
Showing all quotesBirth: | 15th December, 1852 |
Death: | 25th August, 1908 |
Nationality: | French |
Profession: | Physicist, Professor |
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Antoine Henri Becquerel was born in Paris. He was a French physicist, Nobel laureate, and the discoverer of radioactivity along with Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie, for which all three won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics. The SI unit for radioactivity, the becquerel, is named after him. Becquerel's earliest works centered around the subject of his doctoral thesis: the plane polarization of light, with the phenomenon of phosphorescence and absorption of light by crystals.
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