ANTOINE BACQUEREL

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ANTOINE BACQUEREL

• a brief biographical sketch by
• Carl J. Wenning

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Antoine Henri Becquerel

• French Physicist
• Born Paris, December 15, 1852
• Died Le Croisic, Loire Inferieur, August 25, 1908

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Most notable accomplishments

• Inadvertently discovered radioactivity following
  work of Roentgen with X rays and fluorescence.
• Showed that radioactive emissions could be
  deflected by B fields.
• First to conclude that atom must be made or
  particles.
• Won 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with Curies.