1892 - 1987
Louis Victor Pierre Raymond, 7th Duc de Broglie (, also US: , French: [də bʁɔj] or [də bʁœj] (listen); 15 August 1892 – 19 March 1987) was a French physicist and aristocrat 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 1,191,018 page views. His biography is available in 86 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 82 in 2019). Louis de Broglie is the 33rd most popular physicist (down from 29th in 2019), the 181st most popular biography from France (down from 157th in 2019) and the 6th most popular French Physicist.
Louis de Broglie is most famous for his discovery of the wave-particle duality.
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Among physicists, Louis de Broglie ranks 33 out of 717. Before him are Daniel Bernoulli, Richard Feynman, Hendrik Lorentz, Ibn al-Haytham, Henry Cavendish, and Gustav Kirchhoff. After him are Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, William Gilbert, Paul Dirac, Léon Foucault, Lise Meitner, and Pieter Zeeman.
1700 - 1782
HPI: 75.57
Rank: 27
1918 - 1988
HPI: 75.46
Rank: 28
1853 - 1928
HPI: 74.96
Rank: 29
965 - 1039
HPI: 74.92
Rank: 30
1731 - 1810
HPI: 74.40
Rank: 31
1824 - 1887
HPI: 74.38
Rank: 32
1892 - 1987
HPI: 74.19
Rank: 33
1686 - 1736
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 34
1544 - 1603
HPI: 73.61
Rank: 35
1902 - 1984
HPI: 73.53
Rank: 36
1819 - 1868
HPI: 73.53
Rank: 37
1878 - 1968
HPI: 73.40
Rank: 38
1865 - 1943
HPI: 73.31
Rank: 39
Among people born in 1892, Louis de Broglie ranks 6. Before him are J. R. R. Tolkien, Josip Broz Tito, Francisco Franco, Haile Selassie, and Walter Benjamin. After him are Manfred von Richthofen, Ivo Andrić, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Pearl S. Buck, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, and Martin Niemöller. Among people deceased in 1987, Louis de Broglie ranks 5. Before him are Andy Warhol, Rudolf Hess, Dalida, and Carl Rogers. After him are Rita Hayworth, Primo Levi, Lawrence Kohlberg, Fred Astaire, Marguerite Yourcenar, Pola Negri, and Andrey Kolmogorov.
1892 - 1973
HPI: 88.02
Rank: 1
1892 - 1980
HPI: 83.57
Rank: 2
1892 - 1975
HPI: 82.22
Rank: 3
1892 - 1975
HPI: 75.97
Rank: 4
1892 - 1940
HPI: 74.25
Rank: 5
1892 - 1987
HPI: 74.19
Rank: 6
1892 - 1918
HPI: 74.13
Rank: 7
1892 - 1975
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 8
1892 - 1989
HPI: 72.44
Rank: 9
1892 - 1973
HPI: 72.13
Rank: 10
1892 - 1946
HPI: 71.98
Rank: 11
1892 - 1984
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 12
1928 - 1987
HPI: 79.50
Rank: 1
1894 - 1987
HPI: 77.71
Rank: 2
1933 - 1987
HPI: 76.60
Rank: 3
1902 - 1987
HPI: 74.44
Rank: 4
1892 - 1987
HPI: 74.19
Rank: 5
1918 - 1987
HPI: 70.49
Rank: 6
1919 - 1987
HPI: 70.19
Rank: 7
1927 - 1987
HPI: 69.30
Rank: 8
1899 - 1987
HPI: 69.25
Rank: 9
1903 - 1987
HPI: 68.40
Rank: 10
1897 - 1987
HPI: 68.07
Rank: 11
1903 - 1987
HPI: 67.41
Rank: 12
Among people born in France, Louis de Broglie ranks 181 out of 6,011. Before him are Joseph Bonaparte (1768), Louis VIII of France (1187), Pope John XXII (1244), Pope Urban V (1310), François Viète (1540), and Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663). After him are Gérard Depardieu (1948), Jean-Luc Godard (1930), Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809), Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789), Alexis de Tocqueville (1805), and Théodore Géricault (1791).
1768 - 1844
HPI: 74.38
Rank: 175
1187 - 1226
HPI: 74.37
Rank: 176
1244 - 1334
HPI: 74.37
Rank: 177
1310 - 1370
HPI: 74.32
Rank: 178
1540 - 1603
HPI: 74.32
Rank: 179
1663 - 1736
HPI: 74.30
Rank: 180
1892 - 1987
HPI: 74.19
Rank: 181
1948 - Present
HPI: 74.16
Rank: 182
1930 - Present
HPI: 74.15
Rank: 183
1809 - 1865
HPI: 74.09
Rank: 184
1789 - 1857
HPI: 74.05
Rank: 185
1805 - 1859
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 186
1791 - 1824
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 187
Among physicists born in France, Louis de Broglie ranks 6. Before him are Pierre Curie (1859), André-Marie Ampère (1775), Henri Becquerel (1852), Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736), and Henry Cavendish (1731). After him are Léon Foucault (1819), Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900), Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (1792), Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870), Paul Langevin (1872), and Hippolyte Fizeau (1819).
1859 - 1906
HPI: 81.34
Rank: 1
1775 - 1836
HPI: 80.85
Rank: 2
1852 - 1908
HPI: 78.87
Rank: 3
1736 - 1806
HPI: 77.05
Rank: 4
1731 - 1810
HPI: 74.40
Rank: 5
1892 - 1987
HPI: 74.19
Rank: 6
1819 - 1868
HPI: 73.53
Rank: 7
1900 - 1958
HPI: 72.84
Rank: 8
1792 - 1843
HPI: 69.92
Rank: 9
1870 - 1942
HPI: 69.37
Rank: 10
1872 - 1946
HPI: 68.53
Rank: 11
1819 - 1896
HPI: 67.80
Rank: 12