MCQ
Radioactivity was discovered by
- ✓Becquerel
- BPierre Curie
- CRoentgen
- DRutherford
✓
Answer
Correct option: A.
Becquerel
a
(a) Natural radioactivity was discovered by Henry Becquerel.
(a) Natural radioactivity was discovered by Henry Becquerel.
In $1896$ Henri Becquerel was using naturally fluorescent minerals to study the properties of x-rays, which had been discovered in $1895$ by Wilhelm Roentgen.
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