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Nobel prize to H. Becquerel awarded in 1903 "for his discovery of spontaneous radioactivity''. Co-winners M. Curie and P. Curie "for their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Becquerel''

BECQUEREL 1896D

Becquerel, H.;
Sur les Proprietes Differentes des Radiations Invisibles Emises par les Sels d'Uranium, et du Rayonnement de la Paroi Anticathodique d'un Tube de Crookes
Compt. Ren. 122 (1896) 762;

Reprinted in
(translation into English) A. Romer, The discovery of radioactivity and transmutation, Dover, New York 1964.

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Related references
More (earlier) information appears in
H. Becquerel, Compt. Ren. 122 (1896) 501;
H. Becquerel, Compt. Ren. 122 (1896) 689;
H. Becquerel, Compt. Ren. 122 (1896) 559,;

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Record comments
Confirmation of the effect of spontaneous radioactivity. Observation that uranium radiation is not identical to Röntgen X rays.

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