Broglie

Louis Victor Pierre Raymond duc de Broglie

Born: 15 Aug 1892 in Dieppe, France
Died: 19 March 1987 in Paris, France

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De Broglie was best known for his particle-wave duality theory that matter has the properties of both particles and waves. This was based on the work of Einstein and Planck, and was experimentally confirmed in 1927.

De Broglie's doctoral thesis contains his theory of electron matter waves, later used by Schrödinger to develop wave mechanics. De Broglie received the Nobel Prize in 1929.

He wrote many popular works, including Matter and Light: The New Physics (1939), The Revolution in Physics (1953), Physics and Microphysics (1960), and New Perspectives in Physics (1962).

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