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Article: Obituaries
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- March 20, 1987
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Scientist Louis de Broglie Dies;
Won 1929 Nobel Physics Prize
Associated Press
PARIS-Louis de Broglie, 94, a French scientist who won the 1929
Nobel Prize in physics, died March 19 at a hospital in Paris. The
cause of death was not reported.
Dr. de Broglie helped reconcile what were seen as contradictions
between the wave theory and the particle theory of radiation,
offering the hypothesis that particles would exhibit certain wavelike
properties.
Experiments proved his theory correct in 1927, leading to the
development of wave mechanics, a form of quantum mechanics.
"The death of Louis de Broglie marks the disappearance of one of
the most brilliant pioneers in contemporary physics," ...