Henri Becquerel

Henri Becquerel

French physicist
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Antoine Henri Becquerel (; 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 (Marie 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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Henri Becquerel was born on Wednesday, 15 December 1852 in Paris, France. He was best known as a physicist. Becquerel's country of citizenship (nationality) was French. He died on Tuesday, 25 August 1908 in Le Croisic, Brittany, France at the age of 55. He had dark brown eyes and bald hair (color). His zodiac star sign was Sagittarius.

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