Becquerel
['bɛkərɛl]
Definition
(noun.) French physicist who discovered that rays emitted by uranium salts affect photographic plates (1852-1908).
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Examples
- Then Becquerel was next visited, but he was nearly blind and could see nothing in the new optical toy. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Each of these studies was based on the work of Becquerel. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Becquerel's original hypothesis was thus overthrown. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Becquerel and Poitevin, in Paris, in 1855, were the first to experiment in this direction, and Fargier, Swan, and Johnson were successors who made valuable contributions. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- These are associated with the names of Marconi, Becquerel, and La ngley. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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