See also: Becquerel (homonymy)

Antoine Becquerel , born with Châtillon-Coligny the March 7th 1788 and died in Châtillon-on-Loing the January 18th 1878, is a Physicien French.

Biography

He studies with the Polytechnic school (X1806 Promotion). He is officer of the genious in the campaigns of Spain and France. He leaves the service in 1815 and devotes himself to scientific work which are worth to him the title of member of the Academy of Science in 1829 and the pulpit of professor of physique to the national Muséum of natural history of Paris in 1837.

He makes electrochemistry applied to arts the object of his research and gives the first the idea of the piles to constant current. He also deals of Physiologie and Climatologie and contributes to the improvement of the ground of the the Sologne. He becomes foreign member of the Royal Society in 1837.

In addition to many reports, published in the Reports of the Academy of Science and in the Yearly of physics and chemistry , it published several works whose principal ones are the Traité electricity and magnetism (7 volumes, 1834-1840) and the Traité of physics applied to chemistry and the natural science (2 volumes, 1847).

His/her son, Alexandre Edmond Becquerel, was also a large physicist and contributed to his work.

Its grandson Henri Becquerel discovered the Radioactivité.

Homages

Its name is registered on the Eiffel Tower

Sources

Related article

• Family Becquerel

External bonds

• photosynthesis and the photovoltaïsme
• the line of the scientists Becquerel

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