T his week marks the centenary of the French physicist Louis de Broglie's doctoral thesis, which later earned him a Nobel prize for "his discovery of the wave nature of electrons." This discovery ...

In the 1920s, Louis de Broglie in France was studying the new science theories of quantum mechanics. He knew that physicists now believed light waves--usually thought of as a constantly ...

About 100 years ago, humanity learned to see with the help of electrons. In 1924, Louis de Broglie posited that—like light ...

French physicist Louis de Broglie proposed in 1924 that particles of matter have wave-like characteristics, with a wavelength (λ) given by the equation λ = h/p, where h is Planck's constant and p is ...

IN 1924, Prince Louis de Broglie put forward the thesis that all material particles, and in particular electrons, have properties analogous to those of a train of waves. This view, which is now ...