was he honored for that?
No, but he was honored for his discovery of the radioactivity of uranium.
Henri Becquerel
 Becquerel won the Rumford Medal for his discovery of the radioactivity of uranium and he was made an Officer of the Legion of Honour. The Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and H
where did the us get uranium for the atomic bomb Congo. what is this project about? It was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. what is the date of this undertaking? From 1942 to 1946. where is it based? UNANSWERABLE who manages or backs this project? It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. do you know about any particular nuclear product that it might have eveloped? In parallel with the work on uranium was an effort to produce plutonium. who discovered the former nuclear item? Martin Heinrich Klaproth. was it used before that? Yes, Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity by using uranium. who was this person you just mentioned? He was a French engineer, physicist, Nobel laureate, and the first person to discover evidence of radioactivity. any notable experiments that he may have carried out? He made the discovery that radioactivity could be used for medicine.
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Henri Becquerel [SEP] Honors and awards
In 1889, Becquerel became a member of the Académie des Sciences. In 1900, Becquerel won the Rumford Medal for his discovery of the radioactivity of uranium and he was made an Officer of the Legion of Honour. The Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities awarded him the Helmholtz Medal in 1901. In 1903, Henri shared a Nobel Prize in Physics with Pierre Curie and Marie Curie for the discovery of spontaneous radioactivity. In 1905, he was awarded the Barnard Medal by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. In 1906, Henri was elected Vice Chairman of the academy, and in 1908, the year of his death, Becquerel was elected Permanent Secretary of the Académie des Sciences.