becquerel
pronunciation
How to pronounce becquerel in British English:
UK [ˈbekərel]
How to pronounce becquerel in American English:
US ['bekərel]
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- Noun:
- French physicist who discovered that rays emitted by uranium salts affect photographic plates (1852-1908)
Word Origin
Example
- 1. Becquerel handed the phenomenon off to his student marie curie and her husband pierre .
- 2. The photovoltaic effect a phenomenon allowing light-to-electricity conversion was first described by the french physicist edmond becquerel in 1839 .
- 3. The results -- including those for radioactive elements -- use a scale that runs from minus 20 to plus 20 , eschewing the becquerel or sievert units commonly used to detect exposure .
- 4. The photoelectric effect was not discovered until 1839 , when alexandre becquerel , a french physicist , observed that light could generate an electric current between two metal electrodes immersed in a conductive liquid .
- 5. Some 15 years ago the radiation of uranium was discovered by henri becquerel , and two years later the study of this phenomenon was extended to other substances , first by me , and then by pierre curie and myself .