1. December 15, 1852-August 25, 1908

2. Becquerel was awarded half of the Nobel Prize for Physics in
1903 for the discovery of spontaneous radioactivity, but the
other half being given to Pierre and Marie Curie for their study
of the Becquerel radiation
"Decisiveness is often the art of timely
cruelty"-Henri Becquerel

3. Religion: RomanCatholic
Race or Ethnicity:White
Nationality: France
Henri Becquerel was born into a family of
scientists and scholars. Alexander Edmond
Becquerel, his father, was a Professor of
Applied Physics . Antoine César, his
grandfather, was the inventor of an
electrolytic method for extracting metals
from their ores

4. • High School: Lycée Louis-le-Grand, Paris, France (1872)
• University: École Polytechnique (1874)
• University: BS Civil Engineering, École des Ponts et Chaussées (1877)
• Teacher: Professor of Physics, École Polytechnique (1874-95)
• University: DSc Physics, École Polytechnique (1888)
• Professor: Chief Engineer, École des Ponts et Chaussées (1894)
• Professor: Physics, École Polytechnique (1895)
He entered the Polytechnic in 1872, then the government department of
Ponts-et-Chaussées in 1874, becoming ingénieur in 1877 and being promoted
to ingénieur-en-chef in 1894. In 1888 he acquired the degree of docteur-ès-
sciences. From 1878 he had held an appointment as an Assistant at the
Museum of Natural History, taking over from his father in the Chair of Applied
Physics at the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers. In 1892 he was appointed
Professor of Applied Physics in the Department of Natural History at the Paris
Museum. He became a Professor at the Polytechnic in 1895

5. • Rumford Medal 1900
• Helmholtz Medal 190
• Nobel Prize for Physics 1903 (with Pierre Curie and Marie Curie
• Barnard Medal 1905
• French Administration of Highways and Bridges Chief Engineer (1877-92)
• Accademia dei Lincei
• French Academy of Sciences 1889
• French Academy of SciencesPermanent Secretary (1908)
• Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 1878
• Royal PrussianAcademy of Sciences
• Royal Society Foreign Member
• Units of Measure Becquerel (basic unit of radioactivity)
• Asteroid Namesake 6914 Becquerel
• Lunar Crater Becquerel (40.7° N 129.7° E, 65 km. diameter)
• Martian Crater Becquerel (22.1° N 352° E, 167 km. diameter)

6. • http://www.chem.duke.edu/~jds/cruise_chem/nuclear/discovery.html
• http://web.lemoyne.edu/~giunta/becquerel.html
• http://thinkexist.com/quotes/antoine_henri_becquerel/
• http://reich-chemistry.wikispaces.com/file/view/henri-becquerel-
324x205.jpg/98229095/henri-becquerel-324x205.jpg
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