Henri Becquerel
1852–1908 · Person
French physicist; discoverer of radioactivity.
On these timelines: Master, France, People
Around 1852
- Revolutions of 1848 (1848)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Crimean War (1853)
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Perry Expedition to Japan (1853)
- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861)