Becquerel, Antoine Henri
Becquerel, Antoine Henri
Catholic physicist. Son of Antoine Csar Becquerel . Born Paris, France, 1852 ; died 1908 . He discovered Becquerel’s Rays, i.e., the invisible radiations from uranium, and made important researches concerning optics. He is the founder of the study of radio-activity, and in 1903 shared the Nobel prize for physics for his valuable work on that subject.