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OCR: HENRI BECQUEREL 1852 1908) RENCH PHYSICIST Henri Becquerel was one of the first nucleat scientists. He worked in Paris, where, together with Polish born French physicist Marie Curie and her husband Pierre discovered radioactivity in uranium He then went on to discover other radioactive elements Becquerel developed the work of German physicist Wilhelm Rontgen (1845 1923), who discovered rays An in terest 11 photography helped Becquerel to discover the link between radioactivity, light, and magnetism. His work led to scien tists using radioactivity to produce X-ray images. 1903 Becquerel shared the Nobel Prize for physics with the Curies. LIFE DISCOVERY F ALSO STORY RADIO ACTIVITY BECOUEREL nuclear cientists discovet image DISCO