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Archival as AuthorArchival as SubjectPublished as AuthorPublished as SubjectLouis de Broglie
Dates
August 15, 1892 – March 19, 1987
Authorized Form of Name
Broglie, Louis de, 1892-1987
Additional Forms of Names
Broglie, L. de (Louis de), 1892-1987
Broglie, Louis, 1892-1987
Broglie, Louis Victor Pierre Raymond de, 1892-1987
Broĭlʹ, Lui de
De Broglie, Louis, 1892-1987
De Broĭlʹ, Lui
Бройль, Л.де, 1892-1987
Biography
Abstract
Louis de Broglie was a quantum physicist at the University of Paris. He was awarded the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his discovery of the wave nature of electrons."
Important Dates
August 15, 1892Birth, Dieppe (France).
1913Obtained Licence ès Sciences degree, Paris University (Université de Paris), Paris (France).
1914 – 1918Served in the wireless section at the Eiffel Tower, French Army (France. Armeé), Paris (France).
1924Obtained PhD in Science, Paris University (Université de Paris), Paris (France).
1928 – 1962Professor of Theoretical Physics, Paris University (Université de Paris), Paris (France).
1929Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics "for his discovery of the wave nature of electrons".
1929Awarded Henri Poincaré Medal, Académie des Sciences.
1932Awarded Albert I of Monaco Prize.
1933Fellow, Académie des Sciences.
1939Wrote "Matter and Light: The New Physics".
1942 – 1987Permanent Secretary for the Mathematical Sciences, Académie des Sciences.
1945Adviser, French Atomic Energy Commission (France Commissariat à l'énergie atomique).
1952Awarded Kalinga Prize, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
1953Wrote The Revolution in Physics.
1956Awarded Gold Medal, French National Scientific Research Centre.
1960Wrote "Physics and Microphysics".
1962Wrote "New Perspectives in Physics".
March 19, 1987Death, Paris (France).
Occupation
Quantum physicist.
Places
Birth
Undergraduate Education
Graduate Education
Employment
Death
Subjects
Relationships
People
Family
Broglie, Maurice de, 1875-1960
Brother.
Broglie, Pauline d'Armaillé de
Mother.
Broglie, Victor de
Father.
Advisors & Collaborators
Arnous, Edmond
Advised by Broglie at Paris University (Université de Paris).
Cabrera, Nicolás
Advised by Broglie at Paris University (Université de Paris).
Destouches, Jean-Louis
Advised by Broglie at Paris University (Université de Paris).
DeWitt-Morette, Cécile
Advised by Broglie at Paris University (Université de Paris).
Espagnat, Bernard d'
Advised by Broglie at Paris University (Université de Paris).
Géhéniau, Jules
Advised by Broglie at Paris University (Université de Paris).
Goldstein, Ladislas
Advised by Broglie at Paris University (Université de Paris).
PhD advisor at Paris University (Université de Paris).
Rosenfeld, L. (Leon), 1904-1974
Advised by Broglie at Paris University (Université de Paris).
Additional
Allard, Georges
Andrade e Silva, J. (João), 1928-
Barut, A. O. (Asim Orhan), 1926-
Bauer, Edmond
Bethe, Hans A. (Hans Albrecht), 1906-2005
Blackett, P. M. S. (Patrick Maynard Stuart), Baron Blackett, 1897-1974
Charmet, Raymond
Chissick, Seymour S.
Darrow, Karl K. (Karl Kelchner), 1891-
Davisson, Clinton Joseph, 1881-1958
Deans, Winifred M. (Winifred Margaret)
Debye, Peter J. W. (Peter Josef William), 1884-1966
Dirac, P. A. M. (Paul Adrien Maurice), 1902-1984
Druon, Maurice, 1918-2009
Ewald, Paul Peter, 1888-1985
Fargue, Daniel
Fok, V. A. (Vladimir Aleksandrovich), 1898-1974
Frank, Philipp, 1884-1966
Frenkel', IA. I. (IAkov Il'ich), 1894-1952
Hartley, Ralph Vinton Lyon, 1888-1970
Heitler, Walter, 1904-
Hiley, B. J. (Basil J.)
Jordan, Pascual, 1902-1980
Karatchentzeff, Michel, 1942-
Klein, Oskar
Knodel, Arthur, 1916-
Landé, Alfred, 1888-
Langevin, Jean
Lochak, Georges
Lucas, René Auguste, 1898-
Medicus, Heinrich, 1918-
Miller, Jack C.
Morse, Philip M. (Philip McCord), 1903-1985
Natanson, Wladyslaw, 1864-1937
Neculcea, Eugeniu, 1876-1954
Nordheim, Lothar, 1899-
Occhialini, Giuseppe, 1907-1993
Papapetrou, Achilles
Peierls, Rudolf E. (Rudolf Ernst), 1907-1995
Perrin, Francis
Polanyi, Michael, 1891-1976
Pomerans, Arnold
Ravensdale, Tom
Richardson, O. W. (Owen Willans), 1879-1959
Schatzman, Evry L.
Selleri, Franco
Sertillanges, A.-D., 1863-1948
Simon, Pierre Henri, 1903-1972
Thérive, André, 1891-1967
Thomson, G. P. (George Paget), 1892-1975
Uhlenbeck, George Eugène, 1900-1988
Ullmo, Jean
Van der Merwe, Alwyn
Vigier, Jean-Pierre, 1920-
Wilson, W. (William), b. 1875
Institutions
Major Positions
France. Armeé
Served for whole of World War I in the wireless section stationed at the Eiffel Tower.
Universite de Paris IV: Paris-Sorbonne
Obtained Licence ès Sciences degree (1913) and PhD in Science (1924). Professor of Theoretical Physics.
Professional Activities & Affiliations
Académie des Sciences (France)
Fellow and Permanent Secretary for the Mathematical Sciences. Awarded 1929 Henri Poincaré Medal.
Centre national d'études spatiales (France)
Awarded 1956 Gold Medal.
Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
Adviser.
Unesco
Awarded 1952 Kalinga Prize.
Resources
Archival Resources
Author
Louis de Broglie notes on Langevin seminars [microform], 1919-1927.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Louis de Broglie papers, 1919-1978.
Archives et Patrimoine historique
Académie des Sciences
23 quai de Conti, 75006 Paris, France
Oral history interview with Louis de Broglie, 1963 January 7 and 14.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Theses 1952.
Bibliotheque
Institut de France
23 quai de Conti, 75006 Paris, France
Subject
Achilles Papapetrou papers.
Archiv der Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Jägerstrasse 22/23, 10117 Berlin
Alfred Landé autograph collection, 1919-1973.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Archive for the History of Quantum Physics, 1898-1950 (bulk).
Library
American Philosophical Society
105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
Bureau scientifique de l'Armée de l'Air records, 1945-1993.
Armée de l'air
France
Chateau de Vincennes, Vincennes, France
Clinton J. Davisson letters to Louis de Broglie, Hans Albrecht Bethe, and Philip McCord Morse, 1927-1936.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Heinrich Medicus correspondence with Louis de Broglie and Alexandre Dauvillier, 1973-1974.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Iakov Il'ich Frenkel' papers, 1905-1952.
St. Petersburg Branch. Archive
Russian Academy of Sciences
Universitetskaia hab., 1, Korp. 2, St. Petersburg 199034
Karl Darrow correspondence relating to history of physics, 1943-1968.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Leon Rosenfeld papers, 1911-1974.
Niels Bohr Archive
Blegdamsvej 17, Copenhagen, Denmark
Mieczyslaw Wolfe papers, 1914-1947.
Archiwum (Warszawa)
Polska Akademia Nauk
Nowy Świat 72, 00-330 Warsaw, Poland
O. W. Richardson papers, 1897-1959 (bulk 1920-1940).
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
University of Texas at Austin
P.O. Drawer 7219, Austin, TX 78713-7219, USA
Oral history interview with Basil J. Hiley, 2008 January 11.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Bernard d'Espagnat, 2001 October 26.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Edmond H. Bauer, 1963 January 8 and 14.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Ernst Pascual Jordan, 1963 June 17, 18, 19 and 20.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Evry L. Schatzman, 1979 August 21.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Francis Henri Jean Siegfried Perrin, 1963 January 12.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral History interview with Franco Selleri, 2003 June 24 and 25.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Fritz Reiche, 1962 March 30 to May 9.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Georges Allard, 1963 January 10.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Giuseppe Occhialini, 1971 April 5, 6, May 16, 17, and November 18.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Jean Langevin, 1963 January 11.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Jean Ullmo, 1963 January 7.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Léon Brillouin, 1962 March 29 and 3 April.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Léon Rosenfeld, 1963 July 1, 19, 22.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim, 1977 July 24.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Max Born, 1960 June 1, 1962 October 17 and 18.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Michael Polanyi, 1962 February 15.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Oskar Benjamin Klein, 1962 September 25 to 16 July 1963.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Otto Laporte, 1964 January 29 and 31.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with P. A. M. Dirac, 1962 April 1, 1963 May 6, 7, 10 and 14.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with P. M. S. Blackett, 1962 December 17.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Paul Peter Ewald, 1968 May 17 and 24.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Peter J. W. Debye, 1962 May 3 and 4.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Peter J. W. Debye, 1965 December 22 to 16 June 1966.
Carl A. Kroch Library. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University
2B Carl A Kroch Library, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Oral history interview with Philipp Frank, 1962 July 16.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with René Auguste Lucas, 1963 January 10.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls, 1963 June 17 and 18.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fok, 1967 October 11.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Walter Heitler, 1963 March 18 and 19.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Ralph Vinton Lyon Hartley papers, 1920-1970.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
V. A. Fok papers, 1919-1974.
St. Petersburg Branch. Archive
Russian Academy of Sciences
Universitetskaia hab., 1, Korp. 2, St. Petersburg 199034
W. Wilson papers, 1910-1957; 1960-1985.
Royal Holloway College Library
University College of London
Egham Hill, Egham, Surrey, England UK
Wladyslaw Natanson correspondence, 1884-1937.
Dept. of Manuscripts
Biblioteka Jagiellonska.
A. Mickiewicza 22, 30-059 Cracow
Wolfgang Pauli letters.
Bibliothek
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
ETH Zentrum, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Published Resources
Author
... Continu et discontinu en physique moderne.
De la mécanique ondulatoire à la théorie du noyau.
Die Elementarteilchen, Individualität und Wechselwirkung.
Einführung in die Wellenmechanik/ Ubersetzt von Rudolf Peierls.
Einstein/ Louis de Broglie, Louis Armand, Pierre-Henri Simon et al.
Éléments de théorie des quanta et de mécanique ondulatoire.
Étude critique des bases de l'interprétation actuelle de la mécanique ondulatoire/ L. de Broglie.
La mecanique ondulatoire des systemes de corpuscules.
La mécanique ondulatoire du photon: une nouvelle théorie de la lumière…
La physique nouvelle et les quanta.
La théorie de la mesure en mécanique ondulatoire; interprétation usuelle et interprétation causale.
La theorie des particules de spin 1/2: electrons de Dirac.
L'électron magnétique (théorie de Dirac) [microform]/ par Louis de Broglie.
Louis de Broglie, physicien et penseur.
Matière et Lumière/ Louis de Broglie.
Mécanique ondulatoire du photon et théorie quantique des champs.
New perspectives in physics/ translated by A.J. Pomerans.
Nouvelles perspectives en microphysique.
Nouvelles recherches sur la lumière.
Ondes et mouvements/ par L. de Broglie.
Ondes, corpuscles, mécanique ondulatoire.
Optique électronique et corpusculaire.
Physics and microphysics/ translated by Martin Davidson; with a foreword by A. Einstein.
Recherches sur la theorie des quanta.
Recueil d'exposés sur les ondes et corpuscules, par Louis de Broglie.
Sur la théorie du rayonnement/ M.C.G. Darwin, Eugène Neculcea; dir. de publication Louis de Broglie.
Théorie de la quantification dans la nouvelle mécanique/ par Louis de Broglie…
Théorie générale des particules à spin (méthode de fusion)/ par Louis de Broglie.
Une nouvelle conception de la lumière/ par Louis de Broglie.
Subject
Encyclopaedia Britannica Louis de Broglie French Physicist