[Centenary of Becquerel. The main stages of discovery and use of radionuclides (1896-1996)].

The french scientists Henri Becquerel, Pierre and Marie Curie, Frédéric and Irène Joliot-Curie contributed decisively to the discovery and use of radionuclides. Besides them, Antoine Lacassagne, Robert Courrier, Pierre Süe developed the research in Chemistry and Biology. After 1945, medical applications were initiated by Charlie Fisher, Maurice Tubiana, Henri Jammet, in France. Marcel Guillot, student and assistant of Marie Curie, pharmacist himself, inserted pharmacists in research, development, control and teaching of medical radionuclides. Marcel Guillot defined the first pharmaceutical regulations and worked out the first monographs in french and european pharmacopoeias.