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    Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel (French pronunciation: [alɛksɑ̃dʁ ɛdmɔ̃ bɛkʁɛl]; 24 March 1820 – 11 May 1891), known as Edmond Becquerel, was a French physicist...
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    physicists, including Becquerel's grandfather (Antoine César Becquerel), father (Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel), and son (Jean Becquerel). Henri started off...
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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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  • distinction. The first demonstration of the photovoltaic effect, by Edmond Becquerel in 1839, used an electrochemical cell. He explained his discovery in...
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  • Becquerel Becquerel may also refer to: Becquerel family, a family of French scientists Antoine César Becquerel (1788–1878) Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel (1820-1891)...
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  • Paul Becquerel (1856-1904). Paul was a grandson of Edmond Becquerel and a nephew of Henri Becquerel. He studied science in Paris in 1903 and obtained a...
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    refers either to a type of photovoltaic cell (like that developed by Edmond Becquerel and modern dye-sensitized solar cells), or to a device that splits...
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  • surface when light is shone on it. It was first observed by Alexandre Edmond Becquerel in 1839, although credit is usually reserved for Heinrich Hertz, who...
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    but impermanent, enlargements of minute objects. French physicist Edmond Becquerel developed the first known overhead projection apparatus in 1853. It...
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    car elle ne durerait pas si longtemps, d'après les expériences de M. Edmond Becquerel; il est donc plus probable que c'est un rayonnement invisible à nos...
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  • father of Edmond Louis Alfred Becquerel (1814-1862), French physician and medical researcher, son of Antoine Cesar, brother of Edmond Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel...
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  • behavior of metallic substances such as copper. In 1839, Alexandre Edmond Becquerel reported observation of a voltage between a solid and a liquid electrolyte...
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  • anniversary of a groundbreaking experiment by Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel, also known as Edmond Becquerel, in which he discovered the photovoltaic effect. The...
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    charge from light exposure was first observed by the French physicist Edmond Becquerel. Though these initial solar panels were too inefficient for even simple...
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  • Solar cells are commonly used in satellites in today's times. 1839 - Edmond Becquerel observes the photovoltaic effect via an electrode in a conductive solution...
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    mentions Edmond Becquerel, the father of Henri Becquerel, who would later be credited with the discovery of radioactivity. In 1868, Edmond Becquerel published...
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    the crystal, but has a decaying envelope inside. In 1839, Alexandre Edmond Becquerel discovered the photovoltaic effect while studying the effect of light...
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    before this date. The phenomenon was initially reported in 1853 by Edmond Becquerel. It was rediscovered in 1873 by Frederick Guthrie in Britain. While...
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    Heinrich Geissler confines the electric arc in a Geissler tube. 1867 Edmond Becquerel demonstrates the first fluorescent lamp. 1874 Alexander Lodygin patents...
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  • (1696–1771), geographer Antoine César Becquerel (1788–1878), electrochemist Edmond Becquerel (1820–1891), physicist Henri Becquerel (1852–1908), physicist and Nobel...
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  • steam shovel. 1839: James Nasmyth invents the steam hammer. 1839: Edmond Becquerel invents a method for the photovoltaic effect, effectively producing...
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    position when in proximity to an electromagnetic field. Alexandre Edmond Becquerel observed in 1859 that certain substances gave off light when they were...
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  • archbishop, regent during the Second Mexican Empire (d. 1891) 1820 – Edmond Becquerel, French physicist and academic (d. 1891) 1820 – Fanny Crosby, American...
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    Caselli's improved version was demonstrated by French physicist Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel at the French Academy of Sciences in Paris. On 10 May 1860 Napoleon...
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    2011-11-08. In 1867, French physicist Edmond Becquerel coined the term infra-rouge (infra-red): Becquerel, Edmond (1867). La Lumiere: Ses causes et ses...
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  • this context. The photovoltaic effect was discovered by Alexandre Edmond Becquerel. Heinz Gerischer, H. Tributsch, AJ. Nozik, AJ. Bard, A. Fujishima,...
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    members were Olympe Aguado, Hippolyte Bayard, Alexandre Edmond Becquerel, Eugène Durieu, Edmond Fierlants, Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros, Gustave Le Gray and...
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    photography was sought from the very beginning. Results were demonstrated by Edmond Becquerel as early as the year of 1848, but exposures lasting for hours or days...
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  • variations in meteorological and geomagnetic parameters over time 1848 – Edmond Becquerel makes the first full-color photographs, but they are only laboratory...
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    an undergraduate student of his. A French scientist, by the name of Edmond Becquerel, first discovered the photovoltaic effect in the summer of 1839. He...
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