1. ~ a brief biographical sketch by ~ Carl J. Wenning
ANTOINE BACQUEREL
~ a brief biographical sketch by ~
Carl J. Wenning

2. Antoine Henri Becquerel
French Physicist
Born: Paris, December 15, 1852
Died: Le Croisic, Loire Inferieur, August 25, 1908

3. Most notable accomplishments
Inadvertently discovered radioactivity following work of Roentgen with X rays and fluorescence.
Showed that radioactive emissions could be deflected by B fields.
First to conclude that atom must be made or particles.
Won 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with Curies.