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Edmond Becquerel
A French physicist who discovered the photovoltaic effect in 1839…
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Hello! My name is Edmond Becquerel. I lived a long time ago in a big city called Paris, in France. When I was a little boy, my favorite place to be was my papa’s science room. My papa, Antoine, was a scientist, and I loved to help him. We would look at shiny crystals and all the pretty colors of the rainbow. I thought science was like magic.
One sunny day in 1839, I was working all by myself. I was 19 years old. I had two special metal plates inside a jar. When the bright sunlight shined on one of the plates, something amazing happened. A little bit of electricity was made! It felt like the sunshine was waking up a secret power. I learned that light could make energy all by itself.
My sunny surprise was a very important idea. Today, people use my discovery to make solar panels that you might see on top of houses. The panels soak up the sun's light, just like my experiment did, and turn it into power. That power can turn on lights, help computers work, and even make toys go! I lived to be 71 years old. It makes me so happy to know my work helps light up our wonderful world with the power of the sun.
Edmond Becquerel: The Boy Who Found Power in the Sun
Hello! My name is Edmond Becquerel. I lived a long time ago in a big city called Paris, in France. When I was a little boy, my favorite place to be was my papa’s science room. My papa, Antoine, was a scientist, and I loved to help him. We would look at shiny crystals and all the pretty colors of the rainbow. I thought science was like magic.
One sunny day in 1839, I was working all by myself. I was 19 years old. I had two special metal plates inside a jar. When the bright sunlight shined on one of the plates, something amazing happened. A little bit of electricity was made! It felt like the sunshine was waking up a secret power. I learned that light could make energy all by itself.
My sunny surprise was a very important idea. Today, people use my discovery to make solar panels that you might see on top of houses. The panels soak up the sun's light, just like my experiment did, and turn it into power. That power can turn on lights, help computers work, and even make toys go! I lived to be 71 years old. It makes me so happy to know my work helps light up our wonderful world with the power of the sun.
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