Antoine Henri Becquerel was a French experimental physicist who shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with Marie and Pierre Curie for his discovery of radioactivity. He also identified that beta particles are high-speed electrons, made observations that laid the groundwork for Ernest Rutherford's theory of radioactive transmutation, and noted the physiological effects of radioactivity which sparked medical applications as radiotherapy.
- Occupation
- physicist, engineer, university teacher, nuclear physicist
- Position held
- president of the French Academy of Sciences, Perpetual Secretary, president
- Citizenship
- France
- Born
