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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Antoine Henri Becquerel was born 15 December 1852 into a French family steeped in experimental physics. In 1896, working with uranium compounds, he found they fogged photographic plates even without exposure to light — radiation pouring out spontaneously from the elements themselves. The discovery earned him the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with Marie and Pierre Curie, who would take the phenomenon further than he did. He died 25 August 1908, having opened a door he never fully walked through.