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Authorised form of nameBecquerel; Antoine Henri (1852 - 1908)
Dates1852 - 1908
NationalityFrench
Place of birthParis, France
Date of birth15 December 1852
Place of deathLe Croisic, Brittany, France
Date of death25 August 1908
Research fieldPhysics
ActivityMedals and prizes:
Nobel Prize (Physics) (jointly) 1903
Membership categoryForeign Member
Date of election04/06/1908
Age at election55
RSActivityMedals and prizes:
Rumford Medal 1900
RelationshipsSon of Alexandre Edmond Becquerel (FRS 1888); grandson of Antoine Cesar Bequerel (FRS 1837)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1909-1910 vol 83 pp xx-xxiii signed by W C
CodeNA179
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1908/19Becquerel, Antoine Henri: certificate of election to the Royal Society4 June 1908
NLB/21/338Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Antoine Henri Becquerel, [Fellow of the Royal Society]1 November 1900
NLB/35/158Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Wyndham Rowland Dunstan, Fellow of the Royal Society26 April 1907
NLB/37/719Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir William Crookes, Fellow of the Royal Society5 May 1908
NLB/37/744Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor [Frederick Thomas] Trouton, Fellow of the Royal Society7 May 1908
AP/80/2Unpublished paper, 'An experimental inquiry undertaken with the view of ascertaining whether any and what influence is exerted by magnetic force over plants during vegetation' by [Henry Foster Baxter][1848-1856]
MC/15/188Letter from Henri Becquerel, Paris, to the President of the Royal Society28 May 1891
MC/23/41Letter from Henri Becquerel, 6 Rue Dumont-D'Urville, Paris XVIe, to The Royal Society22 June 1908
MS/603/1/74Letter from Henri Becquerel, 6me Dumont d'Urville, Paris, to [Joseph] Larmor5 July 1906
MS/603/1/75Letter from Henri Becquerel, 6me Dumont d'Urville, Paris, to [Joseph] Larmor10 July 1906
MS/663/1/13Letter from Henri Becquerel and Louise Becquerel, 6 Rue Dumont d'Urville, Paris, to [Arthur] Schuster and Caroline Schuster27 February 1902
MS/663/1/12Letter from Henri Becquerel, 6 Rue Dumont d'Urville, Paris, to [Arthur] Schuster22 February 1902
MS/663/1/14Letter from Henri Becquerel, 6 Rue Dumont d'Urville, Paris, to [Arthur] Schuster28 February 1902
MS/663/1/15Letter from Henri Becquerel, London, to [Arthur] Schuster9 March 1902
MS/663/1/16Letter from Henri Becquerel, 6 Rue Dumont d'Urville, Paris, to [Arthur] Schuster15 May 1902
MS/663/1/18Letter from Henri Becquerel, 6 Rue Dumont d'Urville, Paris, to [Arthur] Schuster30 June 1904
MS/663/1/17Letter from Henri Becquerel, 6 Rue Dumont d'Urville, Paris, to [Arthur] Schuster8 May 1904
MS/663/1/19Letter from Henri Becquerel, Paris, to A [Arthur] Schuster, Manchester1 March 1905
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