Henri Becquerel
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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.
Photograph of Becquerel by Paul Nadar
Image of Becquerel's photographic plate which has been fogged by exposure to radiation from a uranium salt. The shadow of a metal Maltese Cross placed between the plate and the uranium salt is clearly visible.
Becquerel in the lab.
Marie Curie
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Maria Salomea Skłodowska Curie, better known as Marie Curie was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist. She shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband, Pierre Curie, "for t
Henri Becquerel
…Antoine Henri Becquerel (15 December 1852 – 25 August 1908) was a French experimental physicist who shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with Marie and Pierre Curie for his discovery of radioactivity. Antoine Henri Becquerel was born on 15 December 1852 in Paris. His grandfather, Antoine César…
Marie Skłodowska Curie, c. 1920
Curie's birthplace at 16 Freta Street in New Town, Warsaw
Władysław Skłodowski and daughters (from left) Maria, Bronisława, and Helena, 1890
Maria (left) and sister Bronisława, c. 1886