Henri Becquerel

Henri Becquerel
Henri Becquerel
	Portrait by Paul Nadar, c. 1905
Born	Antoine Henri Becquerel; 15 December 1852; Paris, France
Died	25 August 1908 (aged 55); Le Croisic, Brittany, France
Alma mater	École Polytechnique; École des Ponts et Chaussées;
Known for	Discovery of radioactivity
Children	Jean Becquerel
Parent	Edmond Becquerel (father);
Relatives	Antoine César Becquerel (grandfather)
Awards	Rumford Medal (1900); Nobel Prize in Physics (1903); Barnard Medal (1905); ForMemRS (1908);
	Scientific career
Fields	Physics, chemistry
Institutions	Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers; École Polytechnique; Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle;
Thesis	Recherches sur l'absorption de la lumière
Doctoral advisor	Charles Friedel
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Antoine Henri Becquerel (/ˌbɛkəˈrɛl/; French pronunciation: [ɑ̃twan ɑ̃ʁi bɛkʁɛl]; 15 December 1852 – 25 August 1908) was a French engineer, physicist, Nobel laureate, and the first person to discover radioactivity. For work in this field he, along with Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie, received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics. The SI unit for radioactivity, the becquerel (Bq), is named after him.

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