Henri Bequerel
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Henri Becquerel
By: Raymie Keegan
Henri Becquerel was born on December 15, 1852 in Paris, France. He had a very wealthy family with 4 generations of scientist. His grandpa Antoine Cesar Becquerel was the first, his father Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel, himself and his son Jean Becquerel. He went into engineering at the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole des Ponts et Chaussees. Henri later married Louise Desiree Lorieux in 1890.
Early Life
Accomplishments
- Throughout his life he became a french physicist, Nobel laureate, and he was the first person to find evidence of radioactivity. For the work in this field him, Marie Sklodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics. He also received the Rumford Medal, Helmholtz Medal and Barnard Medal. He discovered that uranium gave off radiation without needing an outside source like the sun. This was how he discovered radioactivity. The first time he tried it was in Paris and it didn't work because of an overcast but he built the photographic plates anyways and they worked.
