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de Broglie

[ duh broh-glee, broh-glee, broi; French duh braw-glee ]

noun

  1. Louis Vic·tor [lwee veek-, tawr]. 1892–1987, French physicist: Nobel Prize 1929.


de Broglie

/ də brɔj /

noun

  1. de BroglieLouis Victor18921987MFrenchSCIENCE: physicist 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. BroglieMaurice18751960MFrenchSCIENCE: physicist his brother, Maurice (mɔris), Duc de Broglie. 1875–1960, French physicist, noted for his research into X-ray spectra
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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.

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

Ingres seems to have poured his whole soul into de Broglie’s satin dress, the color of which matches her eyes.

Indeed, the original PhD thesis of Louis de Broglie, which established the wave-particle duality in quantum mechanics, was short and simple and earned him the Nobel Prize just five years later.

Then, in 1923, Louis-Victor-Pierre-Raymond de Broglie came up with the amazing concept that Einstein’s wave–particle duality actually applied to all quantum particles, in particular electrons.

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