Broglie

/ brɔj /

noun

1. See de Broglie

Broglie

/ brô-glē′ /

1. French physicist who, influenced by Albert Einstein's concept that waves can behave as particles, proposed that the opposite was also true: that electrons, for example, can behave as waves. His work developed the study of wave mechanics, which was important in the development of quantum physics, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1929.

Example Sentences

The concept was mostly discounted until 2005, when physicist Yves Couder discovered that de Broglie's quantum waves could be replicated and studied in a classical, fluid-based experiment.

From Science Daily

The effect is of a droplet that appears to walk along a rippled surface in patterns that turn out to be in line with de Broglie's pilot wave theory.

From Science Daily

In 1927, in an attempt to crystallize quantum mechanics, physicist Louis de Broglie presented the pilot wave theory -- a still-controversial idea that poses a particle's quantum behavior is determined not by an intangible, statistical wave of possible states but by a physical "pilot" wave of its own making, that guides the particle through space.

From Science Daily

One of those is Alexia de Broglie, who created a personal finance education app called Your Juno, for women and non-binary people, after being shocked by how little her female friends understood about finance.

From BBC

Each location has something to offer: The market on Place Broglie is dedicated to ornaments and decorations, while the market on Place Kléber has the tallest decorated Christmas tree in Europe.

From Washington Post