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Henri Becquerel

 

Over a hundred years ago, in early 1896, the French physicist, Henri Becquerel, discovered that a mysterious X-ray was produced by uranium. Becquerel's achievement was itself based on the work of the German scientist, Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, who had discovered X-rays only a few months earlier in November 1895.

Henri Becquerel
 

 





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