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15 Aug 1892
Prince Louis-Victor de Broglie |
birth Prince Louis-Victor de Broglie Born 15 Aug 1892; died 19 Mar 1987 at age 94. Louis Victor Pierre Raymond duc de Broglie was a French physicist best known for his research on quantum theory and for his discovery of the wave nature of electrons. De Broglie was of the French aristocracy - hence the title “duc” (Prince). In 1923, as part of his Ph.D. thesis, he argued that since light could be seen to behave under some conditions as particles (photoelectric effect) and other times as waves (diffraction), we should consider that matter has the same ambiguity of possessing both particle and wave properties. For this, he was awarded the 1929 Nobel Prize for Physics. |
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15 Aug 1892
Louis-Victor de Broglie |
birth Louis-Victor de Broglie Louis-Victor de Broglie (died 1987), French winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1929). |
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