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Henri Becquerel was a French physicist who discovered radioactivity in 1896 when he found that uranium emitted mysterious rays without any external energy source. This discovery was fundamental to understanding atomic structure and led to major advances in physics, chemistry, and medicine that continue to shape science today.
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- Born
- 1852
- Died
- 1908
- Works
- 20
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- Recherches sur les variations des spectres d'absorption dans les cristaux
- Mémoire sur létude des radiation infrarouges au moyen des phénomènes de phosphorescence
- Mesure de la rotation du plan de polarisation de la lumière sous l'influence magnétique de la terre
- Mémoire sur les propriétés magnétiques développées par influence dans divers échantillons de nickel et de cobalt comparées a celles du fer
- Recherches expérimentales sur la polarisation rotatoire magnétique
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Antoine Henri Becquerel (15 December 1852 – 25 August 1908) 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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