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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 death25/08/1908
Research fieldPhysics
ActivityMedals and prizes:
Nobel Prize (Physics) (jointly) 1903
Membership categoryForeign Member
Date of election04/06/1908
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
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EC/1908/19Becquerel, Antoine Henri: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/21/338Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Antoine Henri Becquerel, [Fellow of the Royal Society]1 November 1900
MS/603/1/74Letter from Henri Becquerel, 6me Dumont d'Urville, Paris, to [Joseph] Larmor5 July 1906
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
MS/603/1/75Letter from Henri Becquerel, 6me Dumont d'Urville, Paris, to [Joseph] Larmor10 July 1906
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
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