Jean Becquerel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jean Becquerel

French physicist

Date of Birth: 05-Feb-1878

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 04-Jul-1953

Profession: physicist, university teacher

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Jean Becquerel (5 February 1878 – 4 July 1953) was a French physicist, and son of Antoine-Henri Becquerel.
He worked on the optical and magnetic properties of crystals, discovering the rotation of the plane of polarisation by a magnetic field.
He also published a textbook on relativity.
In 1909, he became the fourth in his family to occupy the physics chair at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, following in the footsteps of his father, his grandfather A.
E.
Becquerel and his great-grandfather Antoine César Becquerel.