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Antoine Henri Becquerel Antoine was born in Paris on December 15 1852. He was a member of family of scholars and scientists. His father Alexander Edmond Becquerel was a professor of physics> Antoine was a fellow of Royal Society and the inventor of an electrolytic method for extracting metals from their ores. He also received awards like Rumford Medal (1900), the Helmholtz Medal (1901) and the Barnard medal (1905) besides the noble prize for physics For his discovery of spontaneous radioactivity Antoine was awarded half of the noble prize for physics in 1903. This discovery is a famous exam;e for serendipity of how chance favors the prepared mind.