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Meanings of Henri Becquerel in English

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French physicist who discovered that rays emitted by uranium salts affect photographic plates (1852-1908)

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Usage of Henri Becquerel in English
1
Radioactivity was discovered by Henri Becquerel in 1896.
The Irish Times
2
It began in 1896 when Henri Becquerel in Paris carelessly left a packet of uranium salts on a wrapped photographic plate in a drawer.
A short history of nearly everything
3
In honor of that discovery, the Curies shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in physics with their French colleague Henri Becquerel for his work with uranium.
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