Antoine Henri Becquerel (/ˌbɛkəˈrɛl/; French: [ɑ̃twan ɑ̃ʁi bɛkʁɛl]; 15 December 1852 – 25 August 1908) was a French engineer, physicist, Nobel laureate...

quantity, and SI multiples of the unit are commonly used. The becquerel is named after Henri Becquerel, who shared a Nobel Prize in Physics with Pierre and Marie...

was the son of Antoine César Becquerel and the father of Henri Becquerel, one of the discoverers of radioactivity. Becquerel was born in Paris and was in...

Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, Marie Skłodowska–Curie, and Henri Becquerel, "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by...

up becquerel in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The becquerel (symbol: Bq) is the SI derived unit of radioactivity, named after Henri Becquerel. Becquerel...

Guillaume A. E. Becquerel (his son) Henri Becquerel, (his grandson) Jean Becquerel (his great-grandson) Chisholm 1911. "Antoine César Becquerel (1788–1878)"...

Jean Antoine Edmond Marie Becquerel (5 February 1878 – 4 July 1953) was a French physicist, the son of Antoine-Henri Becquerel. He worked on a range of...

shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with him and with the physicist Henri Becquerel for their pioneering work developing the theory of "radioactivity"—a...

Henri Becquerel and Marie Curie, while working with phosphorescent materials. These materials glow in the dark after exposure to light, and Becquerel...

from atomic physics, starts with the discovery of radioactivity by Henri Becquerel in 1896, made while investigating phosphorescence in uranium salts...

original on 21 October 2012. Retrieved 2 May 2011. What is a Joule ? Henri Becquerel Tesla's Biography Tesla (unit) Heinrich Hertz Hertz Rolf Sievert, the...

named two less penetrating types of decay radiation (discovered by Henri Becquerel) alpha rays and beta rays in ascending order of penetrating power....

Bordeaux and entered the École Polytechnique, where Camille Jordan and Henri Becquerel taught. He worked in geodesy and cartography, and was involved in the...

of Oxford in the 1992 version. Hart also substituted Niels Bohr and Henri Becquerel with Ernest Rutherford. Henry Ford was promoted from the "Honorary...

French writer Henri Becquerel (1852–1908), French physicist who discovered radioactivity Henri Bergson (1859–1941), French philosopher Henri Mathias Berthelot...

Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 with her husband, Pierre Curie, and Henri Becquerel. Curie is also the first person and the only woman to have won multiple...

in motor vehicles in their batteries. In 1896 the French scientist Henri Becquerel was working with uranium crystals when he found UV light made them...

the metal, and its radioactive properties were discovered in 1896 by Henri Becquerel. Research by Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner, Enrico Fermi and others, such...

built upon earlier discoveries by Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen for X-ray, Henri Becquerel for radioactive uranium salts, and Marie Curie (mother of Irène Curie)...

named after Henri Poincaré Henri Poincaré did not receive the Nobel Prize in Physics, but he had influential advocates like Henri Becquerel or committee...

Stratigraphy. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 325–327. ISBN 978-1405193795. Henri Becquerel (1896). "Sur les radiations émises par phosphorescence". Comptes Rendus...

Antoine Cesar, father of Henri. Henri Becquerel (1852-1908), discoverer of radioactivity, son of Edmond, father of Jean Jean Becquerel (1878-1953), worked...

Eugène Bourdon – Bourdon_gauge (manometer) 1849 — Henri Victor Regnault – Hypsometer 1864 — Henri Becquerel suggests an optical pyrometer 1866 — Thomas Clifford...

ultraviolet radiation in 1893, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays in 1895, Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity in 1896, and, in 1897, J. J. Thomson discovered...

Jardin des Plantes and its buildings in 1820 The photographic plate of Henri Becquerel, the first documented evidence of the radioactivity of uranium (1896)...

of the positrons used in positron emission tomography (PET scan). Henri Becquerel, while experimenting with fluorescence, accidentally found out that...

science dynasty. His grandparents, Marie and Pierre Curie together with Henri Becquerel won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 for their study of radioactivity...

joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel" 1963 Maria Goeppert Mayer: "for their discoveries concerning nuclear...

nephew of the physicist Henri Becquerel and taught at the Faculty of Sciences in Nancy and at the University of Poitiers. Becquerel was the son of farmer...

book by Galison. Following the 1896 discovery of radioactivity by Henri Becquerel using photographic emulsion, Ernest Rutherford, working first at McGill...