Antoine Henri Becquerel (1852–1908): a scientist who endeavored to discover natural radioactivity
2014; Springer Science+Business Media; Volume: 8; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1007/s12194-014-0292-z
ISSN1865-0341
AutoresMasaru Sekiya, Michio Yamasaki,
Tópico(s)Radioactive Decay and Measurement Techniques
Resumo1 Members of the Becquerel family Antoine Henri Becquerel [1] (Fig. 1) was born in Paris on December 15, 1852, in the Becquerel family, which was a family of renowned scientists.Starting with his grandfather, members of three generations of the Becquerel family were physicists, and they had an extraordinary interest in phosphorescence and fluorescence.His grandfather, Antoine Ce ´sar Becquerel (1788-1878), was a member of the inaugural class of the E ´cole Polytechnique [2]. 1 He joined the army during the war waged by Napoleon against Spain.After that, he became a first-generation professor in the department of applied physics of the Muse ´e d' Histoire Naturelle [3], 2 which is dedicated to scientific research.He wrote two books on phosphorescence.His father, Alexandre Edmond Becquerel (1820-1891), started as an assistant and became a professor at the E ´cole Polytechnique.He was also a professor at the Muse ´e d' Histoire Naturelle.He received a degree of Doctor of Science from the University of Paris.He conducted scientific research on the effect of light, and he was among those who photographed the spectrum of sunlight for the first time.Moreover, he was an authority on fluorescence and had a particularly good knowledge about uranium.He designed a phosphoroscope with which he measured the intensity and duration of the fluorescence of uranium under various lightrays.
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