Henri Becquerel
(1852-1908)
physicist, discoverer of radioactivity (1896), and Nobel Physics Laureate (from 1903)
Died aged c. 56
Wikidata WikipediaAntoine Henri Becquerel (/ˌbɛkəˈrɛl/; 15 December 1852 – 25 August 1908) was a French engineer, physicist, Nobel laureate, and the first person to discover evidence of radioactivity. For work in this field he, along with Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie, received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics. The SI unit for radioactivity, the becquerel (Bq), is named after him.
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Commemorated on 1 plaque
Dans le laboratoire de physique appliquée du museum Henri Becquerel a découvert la radioactivité le 1er mars 1896
English translation: In the physics applied laboratory of the museum Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity on 1 March 1896
47 rue Cuvier, Jardin des Plantes, Paris, France where they discovered radioactivity (1896)