photo Antoine Henri Becquerel

Antoine Henri Becquerel

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1903
in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his discovery of spontaneous radioactivity
Together with: Pierre Curie , Marie Curie
Citizenship
France France
Languages
French
date of birth
12/15/1852
place of birth
Paris
date of death
8/25/1908
place of death
manoir de Pen Castel
Lived
55 years

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member of
  • French Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 5/27/1889
  • Academy of Agriculture of France
    • start time: 1892
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 6/4/1908
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1902
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 7/31/1903
  • Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1904
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1905
  • Société Philomathique de Paris
  • Société d'encouragement pour l'industrie nationale
educated at
  • École polytechnique
    • start time: 1872
  • École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées
    • start time: 1874
  • Lycée Louis-le-Grand
employer
  • École polytechnique
    • start time: 1895
  • Muséum national d'histoire naturelle
    • start time: 1892
  • École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées
    • start time: 1894
position held
  • president
    • start time: 1897
  • Perpetual Secretary
    • end time: 1908
    • start time: 1908
  • president of the French Academy of Sciences
    • end time: 6/29/1908
    • start time: 1/1/1908
occupation
  • nuclear physicist
  • engineer
  • physicist
  • chemist
  • university teacher
notable work
  • natural radioactivity
field of work
  • chemistry
  • physics
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