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de Broglie

American  
[duh broh-glee, broh-glee, broi, duh braw-glee] / də broʊˈgli, ˈbroʊ gli, brɔɪ, də brɔˈgli /

noun

  1. Louis Victor 1892–1987, French physicist: Nobel Prize 1929.


de Broglie British  
/ də brɔj /

noun

  1. Prince Louis Victor (lwi viktɔr). 1892–1987, French physicist, noted for his research in quantum mechanics and his development of wave mechanics: Nobel prize for physics 1929

  2. his brother, Maurice (mɔris), Duc de Broglie. 1875–1960, French physicist, noted for his research into X-ray spectra

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According to de Broglie, particles such as electrons might also have wave-like properties.

From Science Daily • Mar. 10, 2026

In 1924, French physicist Louis de Broglie proposed a bold idea.

From Science Daily • Mar. 10, 2026

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 • Sep. 26, 2022

With the support of Einstein and a few other prominent physicists, de Broglie was awarded his doctorate.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

In France, Prince Louis-Victor de Broglie, the scion of a ducal family, found that certain anomalies in the behavior of electrons disappeared when one regarded them as waves.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson