People · researcher

Henri Becquerel

1852–1908 · Physics

Lifespan

1852–1908

Field

Physics

Known For

Left uranium salts on a wrapped photographic plate in a drawer and found radioactivity.

Nationality

French

Nobel

Physics 1903

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