LOUIS VICTOR DE BROGLIE (1892 – 1987)

LOUIS VICTOR DE BROGLIE ( – ) Louis Victor de Broglie ( – ) French physicist who put forth revolutionary idea of wave nature of matter. This idea was developed by Erwin Schródinger into a full- fledged theory of quantum mechanics commonly known as wave mechanics. In , he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the wave nature of electrons. * A more rigorous treatment gives  x  p  / .