Henri+Becquerel(GD)



Henri Becquerel 1852-1908 Discovery: 1896

Henri Becqueral he was born in Paris into a family who was very into accomplished scientists. In 1888 he received his doctorate degree in science. He became a professor of Applied Physics in the Department of Natural History. He had many important discoveries such as spontaneous radioactivity. He received half a Nobel Prize in 1903 for this discovery.

He worked with uranium salts that he inherited from his father and he saw that when the salts were placed near a photographic plate the plate was fogged. He saw that the rays emitted from the salts ionized gases and were different than X-Rays because they could be deflected by magnetic fields. He named his discovery spontaneous radiation.