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Contents 1 Photographic Plate 2 References 3 e=mc² 4 Dating in text. 5 Italics 6 WikiProject class rating

[edit] Photographic Plate

I have uploaded a higher-resolution version of the Becquerel plate, and included its attribution. Would someone be kind enough to make the swap the old one out? (Technically the author of the image died 98 years ago as of 2006, not 100, but that should be good enough for the spirit of the law, no?)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Becquerel-plate-01.png

Thangalin 02:37, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] References

At the centuary of the discovery and shortly after several overview papers have been published:

• E. Buncel, E. A. Evans, J. R. Jones, L. Pichat, A. Wolf (1996). "Radioactivity - Henri Becquerel's discovery". Journal of Labelled Compounds and Radiopharmaceuticals 38 (10): 873 - 874. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1099-1344(199610)38:10<873::AID-JLCR928>3.0.CO;2-G. 
• C. Détraz (1999). "The discovery of radioactivity: A one-hundred year heritage". Nuclear Physics A 654 (1-2): C12-C18. doi:10.1016/S0375-9474(99)00244-4. 
• N. S. Kipnis (2000). "The Window of Opportunity: Logic and Chance in Becquerel's Discovery of Radioactivity". Physics in Perspective 2 (1): 63-99. doi:10.1007/s000160050037. 
• R. de Andrade Martins (1997). "Becquerel and the choice of uranium compounds". Archive for History of Exact Sciences 1 (51): 67-81. doi:10.1007/BF00376452. 
• A. Allisy (1996). "Henri Becquerel: The Discovery of Radioactivity". Radiation Protection Dosimetry 68: 3-10. 
• M. Genet (1995). "The discovery of uranic rays: A short step for Henri Becquerel but a giant step for science". Radichimica Acta 70 (1): 3-12. 
• J. Dutreix, A. Dutreix (1995). "Becquerel, Henri (1852-1908)". Medical Physics 22 (11): 1869-1875. 
• L. Badash (1996). "History of science: Henri Becquerel and a diverted discovery". Recherche 288: 78-82. 
• M Genet (1998). "The discovery of uranic rays: A short step for Henri Becquerel but a giant step for science". Actualite Chimique 1: 34-41. 

--Stone 16:23, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] e=mc²

An audience member named Stephen Rhodes comments on a BBC In Our Time program that: 'In Einstein's reliance on the work of Maxwell, I am reminded of Isaac Newton's quotation "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants". He was,incidentally, also standing on the shoulders of Henri Becquerel who published the famous e=mc2 in Nature in 1900.' (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_comments_maxwell.shtml). I don't know if this is true but, if it is, it should obviously be added to both this and the Albert Einstein page.

Zoe Ocean 01:36, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dating in text.

On the main page the date 24 January appears, this is possibly a mistake, as the first report on X-rays were given on 20 January in The French academy of Sciences. Becquerel presented a paper on 24 February, which is the correct date to use. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.47.37.88 (talk) 08:06, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Italics

In this article "École Polytechnique", "École des Ponts et Chaussées", and "Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle" are all italicized. Is this correct? I did not think names of places were supposed to be italicized, but only names of works. –bse3 (talk • contribs • count • logs) 02:52, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

I am quite sure that I am right, so I changed it. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Institutions seems to support this. –bse3 (talk • contribs • count • logs) 02:59, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject class rating

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