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Edmond Becquerel

1820 - 1891

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Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel (French: [alɛksɑ̃dʁ ɛdmɔ̃ bɛkʁɛl]; 24 March 1820 – 11 May 1891) was a French physicist who studied the solar spectrum, magnetism, electricity, and optics. In 1839, he discovered the photovoltaic effect, the operating principle of the solar cell, which he invented in the same year. He is also known for his work in luminescence and phosphorescence. He was the son of Antoine César Becquerel and the father of Henri Becquerel, the discoverer of radioactivity. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edmond Becquerel is the 172nd most popular physicist (up from 274th in 2019), the 594th most popular biography from France (up from 1,136th in 2019) and the 21st most popular French Physicist.

Edmond Becquerel is most famous for discovering radioactivity. He discovered that uranium salts emit a form of energy that can be detected by a photographic plate even when the uranium is not in direct contact with the plate.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Edmond Becquerel ranks 172 out of 851. Before him are Ernst Abbe, Paul Langevin, Hideki Yukawa, François Englert, George E. Smith, and Polykarp Kusch. After him are Martinus J. G. Veltman, Leon Cooper, James Jeans, Julius von Mayer, Herbert Kroemer, and Martin Lewis Perl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1820, Edmond Becquerel ranks 10. Before him are Herbert Spencer, Nadar, William John Macquorn Rankine, Anne Brontë, Harriet Tubman, and Henri, Count of Chambord. After him are Henri Vieuxtemps, Multatuli, Jenny Lind, Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Susan B. Anthony, and Lewis A. Swift. Among people deceased in 1891, Edmond Becquerel ranks 15. Before him are P. T. Barnum, Herman Melville, Wilhelm Eduard Weber, Sofia Kovalevskaya, Léo Delibes, and Theo van Gogh. After him are Leopold Kronecker, Ivan Goncharov, Jules Grévy, Prince Napoléon Bonaparte, Franz Miklosich, and Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark.

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In France

Among people born in France, Edmond Becquerel ranks 594 out of 6,770. Before him are Jacques Le Goff (1924), Daniel Auber (1782), Louis, Grand Condé (1621), Marie-Antoine Carême (1784), Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse (1045), and René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683). After him are Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1729), Éric Rohmer (1920), Jean Dausset (1916), Paul Claudel (1868), Gustave Caillebotte (1848), and Blanche Monnier (1849).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Edmond Becquerel ranks 21. Before him are Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron (1799), Louis Néel (1904), Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774), Hippolyte Fizeau (1819), Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788), and Paul Langevin (1872). After him are Edme Mariotte (1620), Jacques Charles (1763), Gérard Mourou (1944), Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1932), Claude-Louis Navier (1785), and Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier (1754).

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