In 1896 Henri Becquerel was using naturally fluorescent minerals to study the properties of x-rays, which had been discovered in 1895 by Wilhelm Roentgen. read more
Henri Becquerel and the Discovery of Radioactivity December 15, 1852, was the birthday of French physicist Antoine Henri Becquerel, who discovered a completely unknown property of matter in March 1896. read more
Marie Curie became the first woman to be awarded the nobel prize and the first person to obtain two nobel prizes when she won the prize for the discovery of Polonium and Radium in 1911. Though it was Henri Becquerel that discovered radioactivity, it was Marie Curie who coined the term. read more
The idea of radioactivity is commonly observed in elements like uranium. French physicist, Antoine Henri Becquerel was the first to be discovered radioactivity in the year 1896. He made this discovery when he examines phosphorescent materials. He was awarded with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 for his great discovery of radioactivity. read more