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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About Paris
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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Scientists
- Wilhelm Wundt· 1832 CE–1920 CE
- Ernst Haeckel· 1834 CE–1919 CE
- Adolf von Baeyer· 1835 CE–1917 CE
- Johannes van der Waals· 1837 CE–1923 CE
- Lord Rayleigh (John Strutt)· 1842 CE–1919 CE
- William James· 1842 CE–1910 CE
- Robert Koch· 1843 CE–1910 CE
- Camillo Golgi· 1843 CE–1926 CE
- Ludwig Boltzmann· 1844 CE–1906 CE
- Ilya Metchnikoff· 1845 CE–1916 CE
- Georg Cantor· 1845 CE–1918 CE
- Gabriel Lippmann· 1845 CE–1921 CE
- Wilhelm Rontgen· 1845 CE–1923 CE
- Alexander Graham Bell· 1847 CE–1922 CE
- Henri Moissan· 1852 CE–1907 CE
- Jacobus van 't Hoff· 1852 CE–1911 CE
- William Ramsay· 1852 CE–1916 CE
- Emil Fischer· 1852 CE–1919 CE
- Henri Poincaré· 1854 CE–1912 CE
- Paul Ehrlich· 1854 CE–1915 CE
- Emil von Behring· 1854 CE–1917 CE
- Heinrich Hertz· 1857 CE–1894 CE
- Rudolf Diesel· 1858 CE–1913 CE
- Pierre Curie· 1859 CE–1906 CE
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Jewish world
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Christian world
Rulers world
- Abdulhamid II· 1842 CE–1918 CE
- Yaa Asantewaa· 1840 CE–1921 CE
- Mehmed V· 1844 CE–1918 CE
- Menelik II· 1844 CE–1913 CE
- Chulalongkorn (Rama V)· 1853 CE–1910 CE
- Quanah Parker· 1845 CE–1911 CE
- Emperor Meiji· 1852 CE–1912 CE
- Edward VII· 1841 CE–1910 CE
- Georges Clemenceau· 1841 CE–1929 CE
- Ito Hirobumi· 1841 CE–1909 CE
- Béhanzin· 1844 CE–1906 CE
- Gojong of Korea· 1852 CE–1919 CE
- José Martí· 1853 CE–1895 CE
- Franz Joseph I· 1830 CE–1916 CE
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