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Henri Becquerel

1852 - 1908

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Antoine Henri Becquerel ( bek-uh-REL; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henri Becquerel is the 17th most popular physicist (up from 18th in 2019), the 54th most popular biography from France (down from 52nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular French Physicist.

Henri Becquerel is most famous for discovering the phenomenon of radioactivity.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Henri Becquerel ranks 17 out of 851. Before him are Alessandro Volta, Albert A. Michelson, Pierre Curie, André-Marie Ampère, Evangelista Torricelli, and Erwin Schrödinger. After him are J. J. Thomson, James Prescott Joule, Ernest Rutherford, Edward Victor Appleton, Werner Heisenberg, and William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, Henri Becquerel ranks 3. Before him are Antoni Gaudí, and Albert A. Michelson. After him are Emperor Meiji, Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Emil Fischer, William Ramsay, Henri Moissan, Charles Taze Russell, Gojong of Korea, Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, and Francisco Tárrega. Among people deceased in 1908, Henri Becquerel ranks 1. After him are Empress Dowager Cixi, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Grover Cleveland, Randal Cremer, Guangxu Emperor, Pablo de Sarasate, Demetrius Vikelas, Carlos I of Portugal, Edmondo De Amicis, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, and Jonas Lie.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henri Becquerel ranks 54 out of 6,770. Before him are André-Marie Ampère (1775), Émile Zola (1840), Gustave Flaubert (1821), Brigitte Bardot (1934), Édouard Manet (1832), and Octave Mirbeau (1848). After him are Eugène Delacroix (1798), Stendhal (1783), Michel de Montaigne (1533), Pierre de Fermat (1601), Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1520), and Philip IV of France (1268).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Henri Becquerel ranks 3. Before him are Pierre Curie (1859), and André-Marie Ampère (1775). After him are Louis de Broglie (1892), Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736), Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (1792), Henry Cavendish (1731), Léon Foucault (1819), Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900), Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870), François Arago (1786), and Albert Fert (1938).

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