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