Becquerel, Antoine Cæsar, a French physicist; served as engineer in the French army in 1808-14, but retired in 1815, devoting himself to science, and obtained high distinction in electro-chemistry, working with Ampère, Biot, and other eminent scientists (1788‒1878).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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