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Answer : 3. "Henri Becquerel"
Who first used the word “radioactivity”?
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Who first used the word “radioactivity”?
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Answer : 3. "Henri Becquerel"
Explanation :
Antoine Henri Becquerel was a French engineer, physicist, Nobel laureate, and the first person to discover evidence of radioactivity. Although it was Henri Becquerel who discovered radioactivity, it was "Marie Curie" who coined the term (radioactivity).