The Nobel Prize in Physics 1929
Awarded on: 1929-11-12
"for his discovery of the wave nature of electrons"
Affiliations:
- Sorbonne University, Institut Henri Poincaré – Paris, France
Prince Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie
Born: 1892-08-15 in Dieppe, France
Gender: male
Field: French theoretical physicist and aristocrat (1892–1987)
Biography
Louis Victor Pierre Raymond, 7th Duc de Broglie 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.