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...number one school in France, and grooms leaders for careers in science, business, and politics. Former President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing is a Polytechnicien, as were auto baron André Citroën and scientists Siméon Poisson, Augustin Fresnel, Henri Becquerel, and Henri Pointcaré. Each year, the top five hundred science and economics students in France join the community in Palaiseau, and after graduation, they continue on to the upper echelons of institutions across Europe...
Perhaps it’s fitting that Peter L. Galison, who was until recently the Mallinckrodt professor of the history of science and of physics, could only be reached via e-mail over intersession from a locale that was once home to historically-significant physicists such as Henri Becquerel and Marie Curie: Paris...
...minute basis and be billed via phone bill. Ehrmann also provides wholesale rates for banks, insurance companies and other businesses that put valuations on fine art. He may be his own best customer. He claims to have saved around $28,000 on an André Vincent Becquerel sculpture at last year's Biennale in Paris by using the Artprice.com databank to show that the asking price was too steep...
...Marie Curie shares the Nobel Prize for Physics with Henri Becquerel and her husband Pierre for their discovery of radioactivity; she will win a second Nobel, for Chemistry, in 1911, for isolating the radioactive element radium...
With hindsight it is plain to modern scientists that classical physics was dodging issues. It had nothing to say about X rays (discovered by Röntgen in 1895) or about radioactivity (Becquerel, 1896). Yet these were no small shadow patches. They were signposts pointing to a new world of knowledge...