Henri Becquerel

Henri Becquerel
Photograph of Becquerel by Paul Nadar
Born	Antoine Henri Becquerel (1852-12-15)15 December 1852 Paris, French Empire
Died	25 August 1908(1908-08-25) (aged 55) Le Croisic, French Republic
Education	Lycée Louis-le-Grand
Alma mater	École polytechnique École des ponts et chaussées University of Paris (DSc)
Known for	Discovering radioactivity (1896)
Children	Jean Becquerel
Father	Edmond Becquerel
Relatives	Antoine César Becquerel (grandfather)
Awards	Rumford Medal (1900) Nobel Prize in Physics (1903) Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science (1905) ForMemRS (1908)
Honors	Officer of the Legion of Honour (1900)
Scientific career
Fields	Nuclear physics
Institutions	Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (1892–1908) École polytechnique (1895–1908)
Thesis	Recherches sur l’absorption de la lumière dans les cristaux (Research on light absorption in crystals) (1888)
Doctoral advisor	Charles Friedel[1]
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Antoine Henri Becquerel (/ˌbɛkəˈrɛl/ bek-uh-REL;^[2] French: [ɑ̃twan ɑ̃ʁi bɛkʁɛl]; 15 December 1852 – 25 August 1908) was a French nuclear physicist who shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with Marie and Pierre Curie for his discovery of radioactivity.^[3]