Becquerel, Antoine Henri
Becquerel, Antoine Henri (1852-1908), a French physicist. In 1896, while working with uranium, he discovered radioactivity. For this discovery he shared the 1903 Nobel Prize for physics with Pierre and Marie Curie. Becquerel was born in Paris. His father, Alexandre Edmond Becquerel, and grandfather, Antoine Cesar Becquerel, were both noted physicists. He studied at the Ecole Polytechnique, where he became a professor of physics in 1895.