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What has the author Pierre Desseaux written?
Pierre Desseaux has written: 'Rapports et comptes rendus'
Did Marie curie write a book?
"Radiations from Compounds of Uranium and of Thorium," Comptes Rendus 126: 1101 (1898). "New Radio-Active Element in Pitchblende," Comptes Rendus 127: 175 (1898) with P. Curie. "Another New Radio-active Element," Comptes Rendus127: 1215 (1898) with P. Curie and G. Bémont. These three works are the primary publications of the two-time Nobel Laureate.
What has the author Jean-Paul Rabaut written?
Jean-Paul Rabaut has written: 'Address to the English nation' 'Precis de l'histoire de la revolution Francoise, avec une table des principaux decrets rendus pendant les annees 1789, 1790 et 1791'
What are examples of tartaric acid?
Tartaric acid is officially named: 2*,3*-dihydroxybutanedioic acid,Structural formula HOOC-C*H(OH)-C*H(OH)-COOHThe superscripted '*' denotes for three stereoisomeric differences:2R,3R- or2R,3S- or2S,3S-tartaric acid (unnatural form)The 2R,3R isomer (or L(+)-tartaric acid)is the natural most occurring one, while 2R,3S-tartaric acid is the socalled meso-tartaric acid because it is identical with its 'mirrored' 2S,3R-form.This stereo-isomeric problem was solved by the first practicing biotechnological engeneer of the french wine industry, the great Louis Pasteur.(citation:L. Pasteur (1848), "Mémoire sur la relation qui peut exister entre la forme cristalline et la composition chimique, et sur la cause de la polarisation rotatoire", Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences (Paris), vol. 26, pages 535-538)- translated title: "Memoir on the relationship which can exist between crystalline form and chemical composition, and on the cause of rotary polarization" -
What was the first known electronic computer device?
Ida know, but there have been many computers, from tally sticks to a computer that is an Ipod, but the first computer that we know that was first invented was a calculator that fit into a large class room. It was in 1943
What is the contribution of Henry Bequerel in the field of Physics?
Antoine Henri Becquerel was born in Paris on December 15, 1852, a member of a distinguished family of scholars and scientists. His father, Alexander Edmond Becquerel, was a Professor of Applied Physics and had done research on solar radiation and on phosphorescence, while his grandfather, Antoine César, had been a Fellow of the Royal Society and the inventor of an electrolytic method for extracting metals from their ores. He entered the Polytechnic in 1872, then the government department of Ponts-et-Chaussées in 1874, becoming ingénieur in 1877 and being promoted to ingénieur-en-chef in 1894. In 1888 he acquired the degree of docteur-ès-sciences. From 1878 he had held an appointment as an Assistant at the Museum of Natural History, taking over from his father in the Chair of Applied Physics at the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers. In 1892 he was appointed Professor of Applied Physics in the Department of Natural History at the Paris Museum. He became a Professor at the Polytechnic in 1895.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). He also worked on the subject of terrestrial magnetism. In 1896, his previous work was overshadowed by his discovery of the phenomenon of natural radioactivity. Following a discussion with Henri Poincaré on the radiation which had recently been discovered by Röntgen (X-rays) and which was accompanied by a type of phosphorescence in the vacuum tube, Becquerel decided to investigate whether there was any connection between X-rays and naturally occurring phosphorescence. He had inherited from his father a supply of uranium salts, which phosphoresce on exposure to light. When the salts were placed near to a photographic plate covered with opaque paper, the plate was discovered to be fogged. The phenomenon was found to be common to all the uranium salts studied and was concluded to be a property of the uranium atom. Later, Becquerel showed that the rays emitted by uranium, which for a long time were named after their discoverer, caused gases to ionize and that they differed from X-rays in that they could be deflected by electric or magnetic fields. For his discovery of spontaneous radioactivity Becquerel was awarded half of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903, the other half being given to Pierre and Marie Curie for their study of the Becquerel radiation.Becquerel published his findings in many papers, principally in the Annales de Physique et de Chimie and the Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences.He was elected a member of the Academie des Sciences de France in 1889 and succeeded Berthelot as Life Secretary of that body. He was a member also of the Accademia dei Lincei and of the Royal Academy of Berlin, amongst others. He was made an Officer of the Legion of Honour in 1900.He was married to Mlle. Janin, the daughter of a civil engineer. They had a son Jean, b. 1878, who was also a physicist: the fourth generation of scientists in the Becquerel family.Antoine Henri Becquerel died at Le Croisic on August 25, 1908.From Nobel Lectures, Physics 1901-1921, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1967This autobiography/biography was written at the time of the award and first published in the book series Les Prix Nobel. It was later edited and republished in Nobel Lectures. To cite this document, always state the source as shown above.
