The
French physicist Louis de Broglie (1892-1987) is known for his theory that matter
has the properties of both particles
and waves. This particle-wave duality, derived from the work of Albert Einstein
and Max Planck, was experimentally
confirmed, for the electron, in 1927. De Broglie received the 1929 Nobel Prize
for physics. Born into a noble family and educated at the Sorbonne, de Broglie
received his doctorate in 1924. De Broglie's doctoral thesis contains his theory
of electron matter waves, later used by Erwin Schrodinger to develop wave mechanics.
