Jean Antoine Edmond Marie Becquerel was a French physicist, the son of Antoine-Henri Becquerel.
11 Facts About Jean Becquerel
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Jean Becquerel 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.
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Jean Becquerel was among the early teachers of relativity and quantum physics in France.
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Jean Becquerel was educated at the Lycee Louis-le-Grand before going to the Ecole Polytechnique in 1897 and completed his studies at the Ecole des Ponts et Chaussees.
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Jean Becquerel then became an assistant in physics at the Museum of Natural History.
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Jean Becquerel worked on the optical and magnetic properties of crystals, and continued experiments to study changes in rotational polarisation induced by a magnetic field that his father had discovered.
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Jean Becquerel published a textbook on relativity In 1903 some of his research came into question when he collaborated with surgeon Andre Broca to examine the radiation supposedly emanating from living bodies which was claimed to reduce upon the administration of anaesthetics.
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Jean Becquerel taught physics along with Paul Langevin and was among the few who taught quantum theory and relativity in the 1920s.
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Jean Becquerel was interested in electron theory and examined magnetic susceptibility in relation to temperature and began to experiment with rare-earth crystals at low temperatures.
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Jean Becquerel examined these using spectroscopy and found that some absorption bands disappeared and this led to a collaboration with Heike Kamerlingh Onnes at Leiden.
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Jean Becquerel received the Hughes Prize of 1913 and the La Case Prize of 1936.