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Louis de Broglie
Louis Victor Pierre Raymond, 7th Duc de Broglie was a French theoretical physicist and aristocrat known for his contributions to quantum theory. In his 1924 Ph.D. 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 quan…
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science · French physicist (1892–1987) · physicist · mathematician · university teacher · historian · theoretical physicist · philosopher · researcher · also Louis de Broglie, Prince Louis-Victor de Broglie, Louis-Victor-Pierre-Raymond, 7th duc de Broglie, Louis Victor Pierre Raymond duc de Broglie, Broglie
Born 15 August 1892 · Died 19 March 1987 · Q83331
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2024· 2 entries
The Conversation: Pourquoi Louis de Broglie, prix Nobel et un des (nombreux) pionniers de la mécanique quantique, a tourné le dos à une de ses théories
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1987· 1 entry
Died 1987-03-19.
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1975· 1 entry
Won Helmholtz Medal (1975).
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1962· 1 entry
Won Great Gold medal of the Société d'Encouragement au Progrès (1962).
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1961· 1 entry
De Broglie received the title of Knight of the Grand Cross in the Legion of Honour
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1960· 1 entry
Upon the death without heir of his elder brother, Maurice, 6th duc de Broglie, also a physicist
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1956· 3 entries
Career landmark: president (1956–1972).
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De Broglie again attempted a theory of a direct and physical interpretation of matter-waves, following the work of David Bohm and suggestions of Jean-Pierre Vigier
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Creating another version that incorporated ideas from Bohm and Jean-Pierre Vigier
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1955· 1 entry
Won CNRS Gold medal (1955).
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1953· 3 entries
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1953).
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Career landmark: President of the Division of History of Science and Technology (1953–1956).
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Career landmark: President of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science (1953–1956).
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1952· 3 entries
Awarded Kalinga Prize (1952).
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David Bohm developed a new form of the concept which became known as the de Broglie–Bohm theory
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For his work in popularizing scientific knowledge, and he was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society on 23 April 1953
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1947· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate at the Laval University (1947).
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1945· 1 entry
For his efforts to bring industry and science closer together
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1944· 2 entries
Career landmark: seat 1 of the Académie française (1944–1987).
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And served as Perpetual Secretary of the French Academy of Sciences
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1941· 1 entry
Was made a member of the National Council of Vichy France
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1938· 2 entries
Won Max Planck Medal (1938).
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The concept was challenged as not rotationally invariant and work on the concept was largely discontinued
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1933· 2 entries
Career landmark: professor (1933–1962).
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And was the academy's perpetual secretary from 1942
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1930· 1 entry
Founded the book series Actualités scientifiques et industrielles published by Éditions Hermann
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1929· 4 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for his discovery of the wave nature of electrons.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1929).
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"for his discovery of the wave nature of electrons"
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De Broglie won the Nobel Prize in Physics, after the wave-like behaviour of matter was experimentally confirmed in 1927
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1925· 1 entry
And 1926, Leningrad physicist Orest Khvolson nominated the de Broglie brothers for the Nobel Prize for their work in the field of X-rays
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1924· 1 entry
Studied at Science Faculty of Paris, doctorate in France (1911–1924).
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1922· 1 entry
The French scientist considered blackbody radiation as a gas of light quanta and, using classical statistical mechanics, derived the Wien radiation law in the framework of such a representation
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1914· 1 entry
Offered his services to the army in the development of radio communications
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1909· 1 entry
Studied at Lycée Janson-de-Sailly (1909).
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1892· 1 entry
Born 1892-08-15.
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