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Louis Victor Pierre Raymond, 7th Duc de Broglie ( / dəˈbroʊɡli /, [1] also US: / dəbroʊˈɡliː, dəˈbrɔɪ /, [2] [3] French: [də bʁɔj] [4] [5] or [də bʁœj] ⓘ; 15 August 1892 – 19 March 1987) [6] was a French aristocrat and physicist who made groundbreaking contributions to quantum theory.
Louis de Broglie (born August 15, 1892, Dieppe, France—died March 19, 1987, Louveciennes) was a French physicist best known for his research on quantum theory and for predicting the wave nature of electrons. He was awarded the 1929 Nobel Prize for Physics.
Elected a member of the Academy of Sciences of the French Institute in 1933, Louis de Broglie has been its Permanent Secretary for the mathematical sciences since 1942. He has been a member of the Bureau des Longitudes since 1944. He holds the Grand Cross of the Légion d’Honneur and is an Officer of the Order of Leopold of Belgium.
Facts. Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. Prince Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1929. Born: 15 August 1892, Dieppe, France. Died: 19 March 1987, Paris, France. Affiliation at the time of the award: Sorbonne University, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France.
Louis de Broglie (In full:Louis-Victor-Pierre-Raymond, 7th duc de Broglie) was an eminent French physicist. He gained worldwide acclaim for his groundbreaking work on quantum theory. In his 1924 thesis, he discovered the wave nature of electrons and suggested that all matter have wave properties.
Louis de Broglie was a French mathematician best known for his description of the dual particle-wave properties of the electron. View six larger pictures. Biography. Louis de Broglie's father was Victor, Duc de Broglie, and his mother was Pauline d'Armaillé.
Feb 12, 2024 · Louis de Broglie was a groundbreaking French physicist whose revolutionary ideas about the wave-particle duality of matter fundamentally transformed the field of quantum mechanics.
