Henri Becquerel - Honors and Awards

Honors and Awards

In 1908, the year of his death, Becquerel was elected Permanent Secretary of the Académie des Sciences. He died at the age of 55 in Le Croisic.

The SI unit for radioactivity, the becquerel (Bq), is named after him. There is a crater called Becquerel on the Moon and also a crater called Becquerel on Mars.

He also received the following awards besides the Nobel Prize for Physics (1903):

  • Rumford Medal (1900)
  • Helmholtz Medal (1901)
  • Barnard Medal (1905)

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