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- NAME: Henri Becquerel
- OCCUPATION: Philosopher, Physicist
- BIRTH DATE: December 15, 1852
- DEATH DATE: August 25, 1908
- EDUCATION: École Polytechnique, École des Ponts et Chaussées
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Paris, France
- PLACE OF DEATH: Le Croisic, France
- Full Name: Antoine-Henri Becquerel
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Henri Becquerel was a French physicist who discovered radioactivity, an achievement for which he won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.
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Henri Becquerel was a French physicist who discovered radioactivity, which he won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903. Before his crowning achievement, he worked as an engineer in the Department of Bridges and Highways in France, and later served as the physics chair at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. It was while studying uranium salts that he accidentally discovered radioactivity.
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