Becquerel 1896
By Nicolas Lara & Lenoyshka Rios
By Nicolas Lara & Lenoyshka Rios
Antoine Henri Becquerel was a French engineer, Physicist, and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1903. He was the first person to discover radioactivity. The SI-unit, becquerel, is named after him.
Becquerel's Experiment's
Becquerel first discovered radioactivity on March 1, 1896. The experiments that Becquerel did were when he was investigating on X-Rays which led to him studying how uranium salts are affected by light. By accident he discovered that the salts emit a penetrating radiation that can be registered on a photonic plate. Studying more he discovered that radiation was new and not X-Ray radiation, he discovered, Radioactivity.
He was a member of a family full of scholars and scientists
He shared the Nobel Prize for Physics with Pierre and Marie Curie.
He was elected a member of the Academie des Sciences de France in 1889.
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