Henri Becquerel Scientist

Antoine Henri Becquerel (15 December 1852 – 25 August 1908) was a French physicist, Nobel laureate, and the discoverer of radioactivity, for work in this field he, along with Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie, received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics. The SI unit for radioactivity, the becquerel (Bq), is named after him.

Personal facts

Birth date	December 15, 1852
Birth place	Paris , Second French Empire
Date of death	August 25, 1908
Place of death	Brittany , French Third Republic , Second French Empire , Le Croisic
Education	École Polytechnique École des ponts ParisTech
Known for	Radioactive decay