Louis de Broglie

Louis De Broglie

Louis-Victor-Pierre-Raymond, 7th duc de Broglie, ForMemRS (/dəˈbrɔɪ/; ; 15 August 1892 – 19 March 1987) was a French physicist and a Nobel laureate in 1929. He was the sixteenth member elected to occupy seat 1 of the Académie française in 1944, and served as Perpetual Secretary of the Académie des sciences, France.

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