Henri Becquerel
1852 CE–1908 CE · Paris
Antoine Henri Becquerel (15 December 1852 – 25 August 1908) was a French experimental physicist who shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with Marie and Pierre Curie for his discovery of radioactivity.
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Paris, the capital of France, was a centre of European Buddhist scholarship. The Sri Lankan scholar-monk Walpola Rahula taught and researched there, associated with the Sorbonne, during the period in which he engaged with Western academic study of Buddhism.
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Augustin-Louis Cauchy, Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, Urbain Le Verrier, Claude Bernard, Sophus Lie, Ilya Metchnikoff
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