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Jean Becquerel

1878 - 1953

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Jean Antoine Edmond Marie Becquerel (5 February 1878 – 4 July 1953) was a French physicist, the son of Antoine-Henri Becquerel. He worked on a range of experimental physics topics including magnetic effects on the optical properties of materials, and the effects of low-temperature on magnetic susceptibility. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Becquerel has received more than 38,291 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Becquerel is the 576th most popular physicist, the 3,936th most popular biography from France and the 64th most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Jean Becquerel ranks 576 out of 851. Before him are Alexis Thérèse Petit, Otto Lehmann, Gunnar Nordström, James David Forbes, Antonio Pacinotti, and Ludvig Faddeev. After him are Ole Jacob Broch, Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann, Dirk Coster, Giuseppe Occhialini, Carlo Alberto Castigliano, and Charles W. Misner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Jean Becquerel ranks 151. Before him are Gaston Alibert, Demetrios Petrokokkinos, Hans Carossa, Richard Sheldon, Peyo Yavorov, and Edith Hannam. After him are Leonhard Kaupisch, Rudolf Walden, Princess Maria di Grazia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Giuseppe Adami, Richard Goldschmidt, and Holcombe Ward. Among people deceased in 1953, Jean Becquerel ranks 113. Before him are Trần Trọng Kim, Hrachia Acharian, Charles de Tornaco, Ralph Linton, Tamar Abakelia, and Josef Fischer. After him are August Emil Fieldorf, Albert Meyer, Charles William Miller, Oskar Luts, Isaías Medina Angarita, and Walter Wild.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Becquerel ranks 3,936 out of 6,770. Before him are Marcel Jouhandeau (1888), Samuel ibn Tibbon (1150), Alain Boghossian (1970), André Schwarz-Bart (1928), Michèle Torr (1947), and Raoul Coutard (1924). After him are Claude Aveline (1901), Rémi Brague (1947), Michel Carré (1821), André Simon (1920), René Petit (1899), and François Perrier (1833).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Jean Becquerel ranks 64. Before him are Claude Pouillet (1790), Gustave Trouvé (1839), Alfred Perot (1863), Pierre Weiss (1865), Carl August von Steinheil (1801), and Alexis Thérèse Petit (1791). After him are Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700), Prosper-René Blondlot (1849), Marcel Brillouin (1854), Ferdinand Monoyer (1836), Thibault Damour (1951), and Yvette Cauchois (1908).

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