feb 5, 1895 - Henri Becquerel
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Henri Becquerel was studying the effect of x-rays on photographic film, he discovered some chemicals spontaneously decompose and give off very penetrating rays.Becquerel's earliest work was concerned with the plane polarization of light, with the phenomenon of phosphorescence and with the absorption of light by crystals (his doctorate thesis)
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