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 1,097,714 page views. His biography is available in 82 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 81 in 2019). Louis de Broglie is the 29th most popular physicist (up from 36th in 2019), the 157th most popular biography from France (up from 191st in 2019) and the 4th 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 29 out of 721. Before him are Enrico Fermi, Ibn al-Haytham, Pierre Curie, Daniel Bernoulli, Hendrik Lorentz, and Luigi Galvani. After him are Henry Cavendish, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Richard Feynman, J. J. Thomson, Gustav Kirchhoff, and Charles-Augustin de Coulomb.
1901 - 1954
HPI: 82.49
Rank: 23
965 - 1039
HPI: 82.45
Rank: 24
1859 - 1906
HPI: 81.74
Rank: 25
1700 - 1782
HPI: 81.52
Rank: 26
1853 - 1928
HPI: 81.27
Rank: 27
1737 - 1798
HPI: 81.27
Rank: 28
1892 - 1987
HPI: 81.04
Rank: 29
1731 - 1810
HPI: 80.91
Rank: 30
1686 - 1736
HPI: 80.81
Rank: 31
1918 - 1988
HPI: 80.61
Rank: 32
1856 - 1940
HPI: 80.46
Rank: 33
1824 - 1887
HPI: 79.73
Rank: 34
1736 - 1806
HPI: 79.73
Rank: 35
Among people born in 1892, Louis de Broglie ranks 5. Before him are J. R. R. Tolkien, Josip Broz Tito, Francisco Franco, and Haile Selassie. After him are Walter Benjamin, Manfred von Richthofen, Ivo Andrić, Pearl S. Buck, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, and Oliver Hardy. Among people deceased in 1987, Louis de Broglie ranks 3. Before him are Andy Warhol and Rudolf Hess. After him are Carl Rogers, Dalida, Lawrence Kohlberg, Primo Levi, Rita Hayworth, Fred Astaire, Marguerite Yourcenar, Andrey Kolmogorov, and Pola Negri.
1892 - 1973
HPI: 91.11
Rank: 1
1892 - 1980
HPI: 87.76
Rank: 2
1892 - 1975
HPI: 86.81
Rank: 3
1892 - 1975
HPI: 81.12
Rank: 4
1892 - 1987
HPI: 81.04
Rank: 5
1892 - 1940
HPI: 80.97
Rank: 6
1892 - 1918
HPI: 80.42
Rank: 7
1892 - 1975
HPI: 80.14
Rank: 8
1892 - 1973
HPI: 79.07
Rank: 9
1892 - 1946
HPI: 78.44
Rank: 10
1892 - 1989
HPI: 78.24
Rank: 11
1892 - 1957
HPI: 77.21
Rank: 12
1928 - 1987
HPI: 84.77
Rank: 1
1894 - 1987
HPI: 82.81
Rank: 2
1892 - 1987
HPI: 81.04
Rank: 3
1902 - 1987
HPI: 80.56
Rank: 4
1933 - 1987
HPI: 79.25
Rank: 5
1927 - 1987
HPI: 77.53
Rank: 6
1919 - 1987
HPI: 77.34
Rank: 7
1918 - 1987
HPI: 77.17
Rank: 8
1899 - 1987
HPI: 76.68
Rank: 9
1903 - 1987
HPI: 75.82
Rank: 10
1903 - 1987
HPI: 75.38
Rank: 11
1897 - 1987
HPI: 74.56
Rank: 12
Among people born in France, Louis de Broglie ranks 157 out of 5,234. Before him are Louis de Funès (1914), François Mitterrand (1916), Christian Dior (1905), Charles V of France (1338), Pope John XXII (1244), and Sully Prudhomme (1839). After him are Erik Satie (1866), Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122), Henry Cavendish (1731), Jean Bodin (1530), Pope Sylvester II (938), and Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683).
1914 - 1983
HPI: 81.13
Rank: 151
1916 - 1996
HPI: 81.11
Rank: 152
1905 - 1957
HPI: 81.11
Rank: 153
1338 - 1380
HPI: 81.09
Rank: 154
1244 - 1334
HPI: 81.05
Rank: 155
1839 - 1907
HPI: 81.04
Rank: 156
1892 - 1987
HPI: 81.04
Rank: 157
1866 - 1925
HPI: 80.95
Rank: 158
1122 - 1204
HPI: 80.95
Rank: 159
1731 - 1810
HPI: 80.91
Rank: 160
1530 - 1596
HPI: 80.87
Rank: 161
938 - 1003
HPI: 80.73
Rank: 162
1683 - 1764
HPI: 80.71
Rank: 163
Among physicists born in France, Louis de Broglie ranks 4. Before him are André-Marie Ampère (1775), Henri Becquerel (1852), and Pierre Curie (1859). After him are Henry Cavendish (1731), Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736), Léon Foucault (1819), Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900), Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (1792), Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870), Hippolyte Fizeau (1819), and Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774).
1775 - 1836
HPI: 84.98
Rank: 1
1852 - 1908
HPI: 84.09
Rank: 2
1859 - 1906
HPI: 81.74
Rank: 3
1892 - 1987
HPI: 81.04
Rank: 4
1731 - 1810
HPI: 80.91
Rank: 5
1736 - 1806
HPI: 79.73
Rank: 6
1819 - 1868
HPI: 79.16
Rank: 7
1900 - 1958
HPI: 76.91
Rank: 8
1792 - 1843
HPI: 76.35
Rank: 9
1870 - 1942
HPI: 76.25
Rank: 10
1819 - 1896
HPI: 75.05
Rank: 11
1774 - 1862
HPI: 74.80
Rank: 12