Talk:Henri Becquerel

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[edit] Photographic Plate

I have uploaded a higher-resolution version of the Becquerel plate, and included its attribution. Would someone be kind enough to make the swap the old one out? (Technically the author of the image died 98 years ago as of 2006, not 100, but that should be good enough for the spirit of the law, no?)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Becquerel-plate-01.png

Thangalin 02:37, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] References

At the centuary of the discovery and shortly after several overview papers have been published:

E. Buncel, E. A. Evans, J. R. Jones, L. Pichat, A. Wolf (1996). "Radioactivity - Henri Becquerel's discovery". Journal of Labelled Compounds and Radiopharmaceuticals 38 (10): 873 - 874. DOI:<873::AID-JLCR928>3.0.CO;2-G 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1344(199610)38:10<873::AID-JLCR928>3.0.CO;2-G.
C. Détraz (1999). "The discovery of radioactivity: A one-hundred year heritage". Nuclear Physics A 654 (1-2): C12-C18. DOI:10.1016/S0375-9474(99)00244-4.
N. S. Kipnis (2000). "The Window of Opportunity: Logic and Chance in Becquerel's Discovery of Radioactivity". Physics in Perspective 2 (1): 63-99. DOI:10.1007/s000160050037.
R. de Andrade Martins (1997). "Becquerel and the choice of uranium compounds". Archive for History of Exact Sciences 1 (51): 67-81. DOI:10.1007/BF00376452.
A. Allisy (1996). "Henri Becquerel: The Discovery of Radioactivity". Radiation Protection Dosimetry 68: 3-10.
M. Genet (1995). "The discovery of uranic rays: A short step for Henri Becquerel but a giant step for science". Radichimica Acta 70 (1): 3-12.
J. Dutreix, A. Dutreix (1995). "Becquerel, Henri (1852-1908)". Medical Physics 22 (11): 1869-1875.
L. Badash (1996). "History of science: Henri Becquerel and a diverted discovery". Recherche 288: 78-82.
M Genet (1998). "The discovery of uranic rays: A short step for Henri Becquerel but a giant step for science". Actualite Chimique 1: 34-41.