Louis de Broglie, 1892-1987.Louis de Broglie Louis-Victor-Pierre-Raymond, 7th duc de Broglie (IPA: [də bʁœj]) (August 15 1892 – March 19 1987) was a French physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate. , 1892-1987 Louis, Duc de Broglie de Broglie. For persons thus named use Broglie. , one of lastsurvivors of the group of brilliant physicists who developed modern physics and quantum mechanics quantum mechanics: see quantum theory. quantum mechanics Branch of mathematical physics that deals with atomic and subatomic systems. It is concerned with phenomena that are so small-scale that they cannot be described in classical terms, and it is , died in Paris, March 19, at the age of 94. His first academic degree was in history, but then he turned to science and the philosophy of science, receiving a D.Sc. degree from the Sorbonne in 1924 for work in which he predicted the quantum mechanical wave-particle duality of matter. After experimental physics had confirmed his prediction, he received the 1929 Nobel Prize Nobel Prize, award given for outstanding achievement in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, peace, or literature. The awards were established by the will of Alfred Nobel, who left a fund to provide annual prizes in the five areas listed above. for physics for the work. De Broglie spent most of his life as a teacher at the Sorbonne and at the Institute Henri Poincare, both in Paris. |
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