Louis Victor Pierre Raymond duc de Broglie
1892 - 1987
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Louis de Broglie was a French mathematician best known for his description of the dual particle-wave properties of the electron.
Mathematicians born in the same country
| Honours awarded to Louis de Broglie (Click below for those honoured in this way) | |
| Nobel Prize | 1929 |
| Fellow of the Royal Society | 1953 |
| Paris street names | Rue de Broglie (13th Arrondissement) (also named for his brother). |
Other Web sites
- Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Nobel prizes site (A biography of de Broglie and his Nobel prize presentation speech)
- Académie Française; (in French)
- Mathematical Genealogy Project
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