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Louis de Broglie

1892 - 1987

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Louis Victor Pierre Raymond, 7th Duc de Broglie (15 August 1892 – 19 March 1987) was a French theoretical physicist and aristocrat known for his contributions to quantum theory. In his 1924 PhD 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 quantum mechanics. De Broglie won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1929, after the wave-like behaviour of matter was first experimentally demonstrated in 1927. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis de Broglie is the 36th most popular physicist (up from 76th in 2019), the 91st most popular biography from France (up from 341st in 2019) and the 4th most popular French Physicist.

Louis de Broglie is most famous for his discovery of the wave-particle duality.

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Among physicists, Louis de Broglie ranks 36 out of 851. Before him are Owen Willans Richardson, Ibn al-Haytham, Heinrich Hertz, Lawrence Bragg, Christiaan Huygens, and James Clerk Maxwell. After him are Hendrik Lorentz, Daniel Bernoulli, Lise Meitner, Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, Charles H. Townes, and Pieter Zeeman.

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Among people born in 1892, Louis de Broglie ranks 6. Before him are J. R. R. Tolkien, Haile Selassie, Josip Broz Tito, Francisco Franco, and Edward Victor Appleton. After him are Mary Pickford, Ivo Andrić, Walter Benjamin, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Pearl S. Buck, and Manfred von Richthofen. Among people deceased in 1987, Louis de Broglie ranks 2. Before him is Andy Warhol. After him are Rudolf Hess, Dalida, Carl Rogers, Primo Levi, Lee Byung-chul, John Howard Northrop, Rita Hayworth, Andrey Kolmogorov, Fred Astaire, and Walter Houser Brattain.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis de Broglie ranks 91 out of 6,770. Before him are Jacques Cartier (1491), Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757), Irène Joliot-Curie (1897), Pope Clement V (1264), Jacques-Louis David (1748), and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744). After him are Louis Braille (1809), Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933), Louis de Funès (1914), Gustave Courbet (1819), Guy de Maupassant (1850), and William the Conqueror (1028).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Louis de Broglie ranks 4. Before him are Pierre Curie (1859), André-Marie Ampère (1775), and Henri Becquerel (1852). After him are Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736), Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (1792), Henry Cavendish (1731), Léon Foucault (1819), Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900), Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870), François Arago (1786), and Albert Fert (1938).

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