Antoine Henri Becquerel

Antoine Henri Becquerel, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1852-12-15 in Paris, France

Gender: male

Field: French physicist and engineer (1852–1908)

Biography

Antoine Henri Becquerel was a French physicist who shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with Marie Curie and Pierre Curie for his discovery of radioactivity.

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Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1903

Awarded on: 1903-11-12

"in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his discovery of spontaneous radioactivity"

Affiliations:

  • École PolytechniqueParis, France