Age, Biography and Wiki
Birth Day | August 15, 1892 |
Birth Place | Dieppe, France |
Age | 127 YEARS OLD |
Died On | Mar 15, 1987 (age 94) |
Birth Sign | Leo |
Net worth: $100K - $1M
About
Physicist whose discovery that matter had wave properties (wave-particle duality) was crucial to quantum physics and led to him winning the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1929. In 1942, he became the secretary of the Academie des sciences, a centuries-old French scientific society.
Before Fame
During World War I, he worked on developing radio communication for the army.
Trivia
In 1961 he received the title of Knight of the Grand Cross in the Légion d'honneur.
Family Life
He had an older brother, Maurice de Broglie.
Associated With
He based his theory of electron waves off of Albert Einstein's work on light.