Henri Becquerel
French physicist
Died when: 55 years 254 days (668 months)Star Sign: Sagittarius
Antoine Henri Becquerel (/?b?k?'r?l/; 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 Sklodowska-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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