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Louis de Broglie

Louis Victor Pierre Raymond, 7th Duc de Broglie (/də ˈbrɡli/,[1] also US: /də brˈɡl, də ˈbrɔɪ/,[2][3] French: [də bʁɔj][4][5] or [də bʁœj] ; 15 August 1892 – 19 March 1987)[6] was a French aristocrat and physicist who made groundbreaking 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" redirects here. For other members of the family, see House of Broglie. For the asteroid, see 30883 de Broglie.

Louis de Broglie

Louis Victor Pierre Raymond

(1892-08-15)15 August 1892
Dieppe, France

19 March 1987(1987-03-19) (aged 94)

Louveciennes, France

University of Paris
(BA in History, 1910; BA in Sciences, 1913; PhD in physics, 1924)

Nobel Prize in Physics (1929)
Henri Poincaré Medal (1929)
Albert I of Monaco Prize (1932)
Max Planck Medal (1938)
Kalinga Prize (1952)

University of Paris (Sorbonne)

De Broglie won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1929, after the wave-like behaviour of matter was first experimentally demonstrated in 1927.


The 1925 pilot-wave model,[7] and the wave-like behaviour of particles discovered by de Broglie was used by Erwin Schrödinger in his formulation of wave mechanics.[8] The pilot-wave model and interpretation was then abandoned, in favor of the quantum formalism, until 1952 when it was rediscovered and enhanced by David Bohm.[9]


Louis de Broglie was the sixteenth member elected to occupy seat 1 of the Académie française in 1944, and served as Perpetual Secretary of the French Academy of Sciences.[10][11] De Broglie became the first high-level scientist to call for establishment of a multi-national laboratory, a proposal that led to the establishment of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).[12]

1929

Nobel Prize in Physics

1929

Henri Poincaré Medal

1932 Prize

Albert I of Monaco

1938

Max Planck Medal

1938 Fellow,

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

1939 International Member, [32]

American Philosophical Society

1944 Fellow,

Académie française

1948 International Member, United States [33]

National Academy of Sciences

1952

Kalinga Prize

1953 Fellow, [34]

Royal Society

1958 International Honorary Member of the [35]

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Recherches sur la théorie des quanta (Researches on the quantum theory), Thesis, Paris, 1924, Ann. de Physique (10) 3, 22 (1925).

Introduction à la physique des rayons X et gamma (Introduction to physics of X-rays and Gamma-rays), with , Gauthier-Villars, 1928.

Maurice de Broglie

(in French). Paris: Gauthier-Villars. 1926.

Ondes et mouvements

Rapport au 5ème Conseil de Physique Solvay (Report for the 5th Solvay Physics Congress), Brussels, 1927.

(in French). Paris: Gauthier-Villars. 1928.

Mecanique ondulatoire

(in French). Paris: Librairie scientifique Hermann et C.ie. 1930.

Recueil d'exposés sur les ondes et corpuscules

Matière et lumière (Matter and Light), Paris: Albin Michel, 1937.

La Physique nouvelle et les quanta (New Physics and Quanta), Flammarion, 1937.

Continu et discontinu en physique moderne (Continuous and discontinuous in Modern Physics), Paris: Albin Michel, 1941.

Ondes, corpuscules, mécanique ondulatoire (Waves, Corpuscles, Wave Mechanics), Paris: Albin Michel, 1945.

Physique et microphysique (Physics and Microphysics), Albin Michel, 1947.

Vie et œuvre de Paul Langevin (The life and works of ), French Academy of Sciences, 1947.

Paul Langevin

Optique électronique et corpusculaire (Electronic and Corpuscular Optics), Herman, 1950.

Savants et découvertes (Scientists and discoveries), Paris, Albin Michel, 1951.

Une tentative d'interprétation causale et non linéaire de la mécanique ondulatoire: la théorie de la double solution.

Nouvelles perspectives en microphysique (New prospects in Microphysics), Albin Michel, 1956.

Sur les sentiers de la science (On the Paths of Science), Paris: Albin Michel, 1960.

Introduction à la nouvelle théorie des particules de M. et de ses collaborateurs

Jean-Pierre Vigier

Étude critique des bases de l'interprétation actuelle de la mécanique ondulatoire

Certitudes et incertitudes de la science (Certitudes and Incertitudes of Science). Paris: Albin Michel, 1966.

Albert Einstein

Recherches d'un demi-siècle (Research of a half-century), Albin Michel, 1976.

Les incertitudes d'Heisenberg et l'interprétation probabiliste de la mécanique ondulatoire ( uncertainty and wave mechanics probabilistic interpretation), Gauthier-Villars, 1982.

Heisenberg

", Académie française (in French)

Les Immortels: Louis de BROGLIE

on Nobelprize.org

Louis de Broglie

Fondation Louis de Broglie

at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

Louis de Broglie

English translation of his book on hidden thermodynamics by D. H. Delphenich

(English translation of his book on the subject)

The Theory of measurement in wave mechanics

(English translation)

"A new conception of light"

on Ina.fr (in French)

Louis de Broglie Interview

in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW

Newspaper clippings about Louis de Broglie