Biography louis de broglie

French physicist (1892–1987)

"de Broglie" redirects here. For other members of the family, see House of Broglie. For the asteroid, see 30883 de Broglie.

Louis Victor Pierre Raymond, 7th Duc de Broglie (,^[1]also;^[2][3]French:[dəbʁɔj]^[4][5]or[dəbʁœj]^ⓘ; 15 August 1892 – 19 March 1987)^[6] was a French physicist and aristocrat who made groundbreaking contributions to quantum theory.

Biography louis de broglie

In his 1924 PhD thesis, he postulated the wave nature of electrons and suggested that all matter has wave properties. This concept is known as the de Broglie hypothesis, an example of wave-particle duality, and forms a central part of the theory of quantum mechanics.

De Broglie won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1929, after the wave-like behaviour of matter was first experimentally demonstrated in 1927.

The wave-like behaviour of particles discovered by de Broglie was used by Erwin Schrödinger in his f