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Louis de Broglie

1892 - 1987

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Louis Victor Pierre Raymond, 7th Duc de Broglie (, also US: ; French: [də bʁɔj] or [də bʁœj] ; 15 August 1892 – 19 March 1987) was a French aristocrat and physicist who made groundbreaking contributions to quantum theory. In his 1924 PhD thesis, he postulated the wave nature of electrons and suggested that all matter has wave properties. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis de Broglie has received more than 1,418,501 page views. His biography is available in 93 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 86 in 2019). Louis de Broglie is the 76th most popular physicist (down from 33rd in 2019), the 341st most popular biography from France (down from 181st in 2019) and the 9th most popular French Physicist.

Louis de Broglie is most famous for his discovery of the wave-particle duality.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Louis de Broglie ranks 76 out of 851. Before him are Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, Carl David Anderson, Georges Lemaître, James Chadwick, Lawrence Bragg, and Ernest Lawrence. After him are Mikhail Lomonosov, Manne Siegbahn, C. F. Powell, Charles Glover Barkla, Percy Williams Bridgman, and Charles Thomson Rees Wilson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Louis de Broglie ranks 13. Before him are Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Haile Selassie, Alexander Alekhine, Pearl S. Buck, and Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. After him are Theodor Eicke, Oliver Hardy, Sepp Dietrich, Engelbert Dollfuss, Edward Victor Appleton, and Ferdinand Schörner. Among people deceased in 1987, Louis de Broglie ranks 7. Before him are Andy Warhol, Rudolf Hess, Dalida, Carl Rogers, Primo Levi, and John Howard Northrop. After him are Gunnar Myrdal, Rita Hayworth, Marguerite Yourcenar, Fred Astaire, Thomas Sankara, and Walter Houser Brattain.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis de Broglie ranks 341 out of 6,770. Before him are Nadar (1820), Pierre Beaumarchais (1732), Chrétien de Troyes (1135), Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan (1640), Robert I, Duke of Normandy (1010), and Charles Messier (1730). After him are Claude Bernard (1813), John the Fearless (1371), Raymond Kopa (1931), Fernand Braudel (1902), Paul Barras (1755), and Antonin Artaud (1896).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Louis de Broglie ranks 9. Before him are André-Marie Ampère (1775), Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736), Henry Cavendish (1731), Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900), Léon Foucault (1819), and Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (1792). After him are Hans Bethe (1906), Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870), François Arago (1786), Alfred Kastler (1902), Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774), and Hippolyte Fizeau (1819).

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