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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