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

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...

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...

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

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...

Guillaume A. E. Becquerel (his son) Henri Becquerel, (his grandson) Jean Becquerel (his great-grandson) Chisholm 1911. "Antoine César Becquerel (1788–1878)"...

up becquerel in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The becquerel (symbol: Bq) is the SI derived unit of radioactivity, named after Henri Becquerel Becquerel...

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

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...

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...

from atomic physics, starts with the discovery of radioactivity by Henri Becquerel in 1896, made while investigating phosphorescence in uranium salts...

nephew of the physicist Henri Becquerel and taught at the Faculty of Sciences in Nancy and at the University of Poitiers. Becquerel was the son of farmer...

footballer Henri Anspach (1882–1979), Belgian Olympic champion épée and foil fencer Henri Anier (born 1990), Estonian footballer Henri Becquerel (1852–1908)...

named two less penetrating types of decay radiation (discovered by Henri Becquerel) alpha rays and beta rays in ascending order of penetrating power....

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

the metal, and its radioactive properties were discovered in 1896 by Henri Becquerel. Research by Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner, Enrico Fermi and others, such...

Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 with her husband, Pierre Curie, and Henri Becquerel. Curie is also the first person and the only woman to have won multiple...

built upon earlier discoveries by Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen for X-ray, Henri Becquerel for radioactive uranium salts, and Marie Curie (mother of Irène Curie)...

Stratigraphy. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 325–327. ISBN 978-1405193795. Henri Becquerel (1896). "Sur les radiations émises par phosphorescence". Comptes Rendus...

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

named after Henri Poincaré Henri Poincaré did not receive the Nobel Prize in Physics, but he had influential advocates like Henri Becquerel or committee...

original on 21 October 2012. Retrieved 2 May 2011. What is a Joule ? Henri Becquerel Tesla's Biography Tesla (unit) Heinrich Hertz Hertz Rolf Sievert, the...

Bordeaux and entered the École Polytechnique, where Camille Jordan and Henri Becquerel taught. He worked in geodesy and cartography, and was involved in the...

main properties of X-rays that we understand to this day. In 1896, Henri Becquerel found that rays emanating from certain minerals penetrated black paper...

science dynasty. His grandparents, Marie and Pierre Curie together with Henri Becquerel won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 for their study of radioactivity...

Antoine Cesar, father of Henri. Henri Becquerel (1852-1908), discoverer of radioactivity, son of Edmond, father of Jean Jean Becquerel (1878-1953), worked...

these was Henri Becquerel, who investigated the relationship between phosphorescence and the blackening of photographic plates. When Becquerel (working...

Eugène Bourdon – Bourdon_gauge (manometer) 1849 — Henri Victor Regnault – Hypsometer 1864 — Henri Becquerel suggests an optical pyrometer 1866 — Thomas Clifford...

also claimed by the JINR, which proposed the name becquerelium after Henri Becquerel, and by the LBNL, which proposed the name hahnium to resolve the dispute...

(1696–1771), geographer Antoine César Becquerel (1788–1878), electrochemist Edmond Becquerel (1820–1891), physicist Henri Becquerel (1852–1908), physicist and Nobel...