| Louis de Broglie AKA Louis Victor Pierre Raymond du Broglie
Born: 15-Aug-1892 Birthplace: Dieppe, France Died: 19-Mar-1987 Location of death: Paris, France Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Physicist Nationality: France Executive summary: Discovered the wave nature of electrons Military service: French Army (WWI) Father: Louis Alphonse Victor de Broglie (diplomat, 5th Duke de Broglie, b. 30-Oct-1846, d. 26-Aug-1906) Mother: Pauline d'Armaillé (b. 22-Dec-1851, m. 28-Sep-1871, d. 26-Jun-1928) Sister: Albertine de Broglie de Luppé (b. 26-Aug-1876, d. 7-Feb-1934) Brother: Phillippe de Broglie (b. 6-Dec-1881, d. 18-May-1890) Sister: Laure Marie Pauline de Broglie de Pange (b. 5-Feb-1888, d. 29-Feb-1972) Brother: Maurice de Broglie (physicist, 6th Duke de Broglie, b. 27-Apr-1875, d. 14-Jul-1960)
High School: Lyceé Janson de Sailly, Paris, France (1909) University: Sorbonne Professor: Sorbonne Professor: University of Paris (1932-87)
Nobel Prize for Physics 1929 Max Planck Medal 1938 French Academy 1944 International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science Royal Society 1953
Author of books:
Ondes et Mouvements (1926) La Mécanique Ondulatoire (1928) Matter and Light: The New Physics (1939) The Revolution in Physics (1953) Une Tentative d'Interprétation Causale et non Linéaire de la Mécanique Ondulatoire: La Théorie de la Double Solution (1956) Non-linear Wave Mechanics: A Causal Interpretation (1960, trans.) Physics and Microphysics (1960) Introduction à la Nouvelle Théorie des Particules de M Jean-Pierre Vigier et de ses Collaborateurs (1961) New Perspectives in Physics (1962) Etude Critique des Bases de l'Lnterprétation Actuelle de la Mécanique Ondulatoire (1963) Introduction to the Vigier Theory of Elementary Particles (1963, trans.) The Current Interpretation of Wave Mechanics: A Critical Study (1964, trans.)
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