Henri_Becquerel
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173 years old
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55 years old
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Henri Becquerel | |
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 Photograph of Becquerel by Paul Nadar | |
| Born | Antoine Henri Becquerel 15 December 1852 |
| Died | 25 August 1908 (aged 55) |
| Education | Lycée Louis-le-Grand |
| Alma mater | |
| Known for | Discovery of radioactivity |
| Children | Jean Becquerel |
| Father | Edmond Becquerel |
| Family | Becquerel |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Radiophysics |
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| Thesis | Recherches sur l’absorption de la lumière dans les cristaux (1888) |
| Doctoral advisor | Charles Friedel |
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- Radioactivity
- Corps des ponts
- Becquerel family
- Scientists from Paris
- French Nobel laureates
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- French nuclear physicists
- Nuclear history of France
- Nobel laureates in Physics
- École polytechnique alumni
- French experimental physicists
- École des Ponts ParisTech alumni
- French fellows of the Royal Society
- Foreign members of the Royal Society
- Pages including recorded pronunciations
- Members of the French Academy of Sciences
- Presidents of the Société Française de Physique
- Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences
- International members of the American Philosophical Society
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