Louis de Broglie was born on 15 August 1892 in Dieppe. A French physicist and aristocrat, de Broglie first studied history before turning to physics. In his 1924 doctoral thesis he proposed that matter has wave properties, with a wavelength inversely proportional to momentum, extending the wave-particle duality that had been established for light. The idea was confirmed a few years later by electron diffraction experiments, and inspired Erwin Schrodinger's wave equation. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1929. He was a member of the Academie francaise and the Academy of Sciences, and later served as its permanent secretary, and he promoted the peaceful use of atomic energy in France.
Before and after
- 26 June 1892Birth of Pearl S. Buck
- from 7 July 1892 to 10 May 1897Rise of Katipunan
- 23 July 1892Birth of Haile Selassie I
- 23 July 1892Founding of International Skating Union
- 15 August 1892Birth of Louis de Broglie
- 24 August 1892Construction of Goodison Park
- 9 September 1892Discovery of Amalthea
- 10 September 1892Birth of Arthur Holly Compton
- 10 October 1892Birth of Ivo Andrić
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