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    Antoine Henri Becquerel (/ˌbɛkəˈrɛl/; French pronunciation: [ɑ̃twan ɑ̃ʁi bɛkʁɛl]; 15 December 1852 – 25 August 1908) was a French engineer, physicist...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, Marie Skłodowska–Curie, and Henri Becquerel, "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by...
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  • up becquerel in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The becquerel (symbol: Bq) is the SI derived unit of radioactivity, named after Henri Becquerel. Becquerel...
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    Guillaume A. E. Becquerel (his son) Henri Becquerel, (his grandson) Jean Becquerel (his great-grandson) Chisholm 1911. "Antoine César Becquerel (1788–1878)"...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    as potassium-40. Radioactivity was discovered in 1896 by scientists Henri Becquerel and Marie Skłodowska-Curie, while working with phosphorescent materials...
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    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...
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