Louis de Broglie - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1929
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Louis de Broglie

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1929
for his discovery of the wave nature of electrons
Citizenship
France France
Languages
French
date of birth
8/15/1892
place of birth
Dieppe
date of death
3/19/1987
place of death
Louveciennes
Lived
94 years

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educated at
  • Science Faculty of Paris
    • academic degree: doctorate in France
    • end time: 1924
    • start time: 1911
  • Lycée Janson-de-Sailly
    • end time: 1909
position held
  • president
    • end time: 1972
    • start time: 1956
  • professor
    • end time: 1962
    • start time: 1933
  • President of the Division of History of Science and Technology
    • start time: 1953
    • end time: 1956
  • President of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science
    • start time: 1953
    • end time: 1956
  • seat 1 of the Académie française
    • end time: 3/19/1987
    • start time: 10/12/1944
  • honorary presidency
employer
  • Science Faculty of Paris
    • end time: 1962
    • start time: 1932
  • Institut Henri Poincaré
    • end time: 1962
    • start time: 1928
  • Sorbonne
    • start time: 1925
    • end time: 1927
member of
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 10/5/1947
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1948
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
    • start time: 1934
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 4/23/1953
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    • start time: 1958
  • Academy of Sciences of the USSR
    • start time: 1958
  • Académie Française
    • start time: 10/12/1944
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1939
  • International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science
  • Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Rouen
  • International Academy of the History of Science
  • Vichy National Council
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
  • Pontifical Academy of Sciences
  • French Academy of Sciences
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  • Indian National Science Academy
  • Romanian Academy
occupation
  • mathematician
  • historian
  • physicist
  • researcher
  • university teacher
  • philosopher
  • theoretical physicist
doctoral student
  • José António Vieira Vassalo Pereira
  • João Luis Andrade e Silva
  • Nicolás Cabrera
  • Olivier Costa de Beauregard
  • Émile Durand
  • Alexandru Proca
  • Jean-Louis Destouches
  • Jules Géhéniau
  • Mioara Mugur-Schächter
  • Mioara Mugur-Schächter
  • Cécile DeWitt-Morette
  • Bernard d'Espagnat
field of work
  • theoretical physics
notable work
  • matter wave
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