{"id":85443,"date":"2018-12-03T14:22:36","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T22:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/henri-becquerel-and-the-serendipitous-discovery-of-radioactivity"},"modified":"2018-12-03T14:22:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T22:22:36","slug":"henri-becquerel-and-the-serendipitous-discovery-of-radioactivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/henri-becquerel-and-the-serendipitous-discovery-of-radioactivity","title":{"rendered":"Henri Becquerel and the Serendipitous Discovery of Radioactivity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Antoine Henri Becquerel (born December 15, 1852 in Paris, France), known as Henri Becquerel, was a French physicist who discovered radioactivity<\/a>, a process in which an atomic nucleus emits particles because it is unstable. He won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pierre and Marie Curie, the latter of whom was Becquerel\u2019s graduate student. The SI<\/a> unit for radioactivity called the becquerel (or Bq), which measures the amount of ionizing radiation<\/a> that is released when an atom<\/a> experiences radioactive decay<\/a>, is also named after Becquerel.<\/p>\n

Becquerel was born December 15, 1852 in Paris, France, to Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel and Aurelie Quenard. At an early age, Becquerel attended the preparatory school Lyc\u00e9e Louis-le-Grand, located in Paris. In 1872, Becquerel began attending the \u00c9cole Polytechnique and in 1874 the \u00c9cole des Ponts et Chauss\u00e9es (Bridges and Highways School), where he studied civil engineering.<\/p>\n

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Antoine Henri Becquerel (born December 15, 1852 in Paris, France), known as Henri Becquerel, was a French physicist who discovered radioactivity, a process in which an atomic nucleus emits particles because it is unstable. He won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pierre and Marie Curie, the latter of whom was Becquerel\u2019s graduate student. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,38,48,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-engineering","category-particle-physics","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}