The becquerel (/ˌbɛkəˈrɛl/; symbol: Bq) is the unit of radioactivity in the International System of Units (SI). One becquerel is defined as an activity...

Antoine Henri Becquerel (/ˌbɛkəˈrɛl/; French pronunciation: [ɑ̃twan ɑ̃ʁi bɛkʁɛl]; 15 December 1852 – 25 August 1908) was a French engineer, physicist...

Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel (French pronunciation: [alɛksɑ̃dʁ ɛdmɔ̃ bɛkʁɛl]; 24 March 1820 – 11 May 1891), known as Edmond Becquerel, was a French physicist...

Becquerel. Becquerel may also refer to: Becquerel family, a family of French scientists Antoine César Becquerel (1788–1878) Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel (1820-1891)...

Henri Becquerel and taught at the Faculty of Sciences in Nancy and at the University of Poitiers. Becquerel was the son of farmer André Paul Becquerel (1856-1904)...

The Becquerel family is a family of French scientists. The most notable members of them include: Antoine César Becquerel (1788–1878), pioneer in the study...

potassium-40. Radioactivity was discovered in 1896 by scientists Henri Becquerel and Marie Skłodowska-Curie, while working with phosphorescent materials...

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...

The European Becquerel Prize for Outstanding Merits in Photovoltaics (or in short the Becquerel Prize) is a prize to honour scientific, technical or managerial...

Antoine César Becquerel (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃twan sezaʁ bɛkʁɛl]; 7 March 1788 – 18 January 1878) was a French scientist and a pioneer in the study...

Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, Marie Skłodowska–Curie, and Henri Becquerel, "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their...

Becquerel is a lunar impact crater that lies in the northern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon. This is an ancient and heavily worn formation that...

distinction. The first demonstration of the photovoltaic effect, by Edmond Becquerel in 1839, used an electrochemical cell. He explained his discovery in Comptes...

the positrons used in positron emission tomography (PET scan). Henri Becquerel, while experimenting with fluorescence, accidentally found out that uranium...

Louis Alfred Becquerel (3 June 1814 – 10 March 1862) was a French physician and medical researcher. Becquerel was born in Paris. He was the oldest son...

(1/s or s−1) in general or, in the specific case of radioactivity, in becquerels. Whereas 1 Hz is one cycle (or periodic event) per second, 1 Bq is one...

cycles per second – the SI unit for frequency and rotational frequency becquerel (Bq) – the SI unit for the rate of occurrence of aperiodic or stochastic...

the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with him and with the physicist Henri Becquerel for their pioneering work developing the theory of "radioactivity"—a term...

activity of the source of radioactivity. The SI unit of radioactivity, the becquerel (Bq), is equivalent to one disintegration per second. This unit should...

66×1010 Bq/g). In 1975 the General Conference on Weights and Measures gave the becquerel (Bq), defined as one nuclear decay per second, official status as the...

Becquerel is a 167 km-diameter crater at 22.1°N, 352.0°E on Mars, in Arabia Terra in Oxia Palus quadrangle. It is named after Antoine H. Becquerel. Photographs...

gravitation Quantum gravity Theory of everything Scientists Witten Röntgen Becquerel Lorentz Planck Curie Wien Skłodowska-Curie Sommerfeld Rutherford Soddy...

gravitation Quantum gravity Theory of everything Scientists Witten Röntgen Becquerel Lorentz Planck Curie Wien Skłodowska-Curie Sommerfeld Rutherford Soddy...

per second. It is therefore equivalent to one megabecquerel, and one becquerel equals one microrutherford. One rutherford is equivalent to 2.703 × 10−5...

include the mathematician and physicist Henri Poincaré; physicists Henri Becquerel, Pierre and Marie Curie, who remain famous for their work on radioactivity;...

edit Quantity Unit Symbol Derivation Year SI equivalent Activity (A) becquerel Bq s−1 1974 SI unit curie Ci 3.7 × 1010 s−1 1953 3.7×1010 Bq rutherford...

only its small rest mass. Radioactivity was discovered in 1896 by Henri Becquerel in uranium, and subsequently observed by Marie and Pierre Curie in thorium...

cesium-137 in 1960's was reportedly 45,000 becquerels. Figures from 2011 have a mid range of about 1,100 becquerels, but strangely, cancer cases are no more...

Oxford in the 1992 version. Hart also substituted Niels Bohr and Henri Becquerel with Ernest Rutherford. Henry Ford was promoted from the "Honorary Mentions"...

luminous flux cd⋅m2/m2 cd⋅sr lux lx illuminance cd⋅m2/m4 lm/m2 = cd⋅sr⋅m−2 becquerel Bq activity referred to a radionuclide (decays per unit time) s−1 gray...