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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Family of French physicists, including Antoine César (1788–1878), a pioneer in electrochemistry; his son Alexandre Edmond (1820–1891), noted for his research on phosphorescence and spectroscopy; and his grandson Antoine Henri (1852–1908), who shared a 1903 Nobel Prize for his discovery of the radioactive properties of uranium.
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- noun French physicist who discovered that rays emitted by uranium salts affect photographic plates (1852-1908)
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Very soon a number of physicists were working in the extended field; I need only name Becquerel, Cotton,
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A Becquerel is a frequently used measure of radiation.
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A Becquerel is a frequently used measure of radiation.
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Blaufox, "Becquerel" (1996), 145 – 154; Dutreix and Dutreix, "Henri Becquerel" (1995), 1869 – 1875. back
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She shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband Pierre and Antoine Becquerel for their "research on the radiation phenomena".
Science Maxine 2009
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The couple were awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 1903, jointly with Henri Becquerel, the discoverer of radioactivity.
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On May 17th, Greenpeace announced that several types of seaweed ready for harvest from the ocean show radiation levels over 10,000 Becquerel per kilogram -- the upper limit of what their equipment can detect and well-above safety limits for consumption.
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In 1893, physicist Henri Becquerel discovered the photovoltaic effect.
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On May 17th, Greenpeace announced that several types of seaweed ready for harvest from the ocean show radiation levels over 10,000 Becquerel per kilogram -- the upper limit of what their equipment can detect and well-above safety limits for consumption.
David Wagner: Report From Tokyo: Left Holding the Bag David Wagner 2011
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Much inorganic chemistry in the early 1900s was a consequence of the discovery of radioactivity in 1896, for which Henri Becquerel from
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry 2010
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