Antoine Henri Becquerel was a French engineer, physicist, Nobel laureate, and the first person to discover 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, is named after him.

Antoine Henri Becquerel Quotes

1. “I have to keep going, as there are always people on my track. I have to publish my present work as rapidly as possible in order to keep in the race.The best sprinters in this road of investigation are Becquerel and the Curies…”
― Henri Becquerel

2. “Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by electricity or that portraits could be drawn by chemistry.”
― Henri Becquerel