Henri Becquerel - Wikipedia

Thanks Maj Marty Hogan for letting us know that December 15 is the anniversary of the birth of French physicist, 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics laureate Antoine Henri Becquerel who was the first person to discover evidence of radioactivity.
His discovery of radioactivity along with the efforts of Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie was very costly to the lives of these physicists; but, their brilliant efforts to use X-rays to allow trained physicians to discover maladies including internal breaks inside the body without surgery has benefited billions of people.
Rest in peace Antoine Henri Becquerel!
Radioactivity ~ Henri Becquerel, Marie & Pierre Curie.
"Antoine Henri Becquerel (15 December 1852 – 25 August 1908) was a French physicist, Nobel laureate, and the discoverer of radioactivity, for work in this field he, along with Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie, received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics. The SI unit for radioactivity, the becquerel (Bq), is named after him.
Marie Skłodowska-Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person (and only woman) to win twice, the only person to win twice in multiple sciences, and was part of the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. She was also the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris, and in 1995 became the first woman to be entombed on her own merits in the Panthéon in Paris.
Pierre Curie (15 May 1859 – 19 April 1906) was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity. In 1903 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, Marie Skłodowska-Curie, and Henri Becquerel, "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel".
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Maj Marty Hogan Good morning! Interesting that the French led the way in this field.

Great bio share on Henri Becquerel.