Broglie

British

/ brɔj /

noun

See de Broglie

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Broglie Scientific

/ brô-glē′ /

French physicist who, influenced by Albert Einstein's concept that waves can behave as particles, proposed that the opposite was also true: that electrons, for example, can behave as waves. His work developed the study of wave mechanics, which was important in the development of quantum physics, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1929.

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In visible and near infrared light, that wavelength can be up to a thousand times larger than the de Broglie wavelength used in electronic circuits.

From Science Daily ● May 21, 2026

The spacing between atoms in the graphene closely matched the de Broglie wavelength of the positronium at the energies used in the experiment.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 28, 2026

One of those is Alexia de Broglie, who created a personal finance education app called Your Juno, for women and non-binary people, after being shocked by how little her female friends understood about finance.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2022

Electrons were the first particles with mass to be directly confirmed to have the wavelength proposed by de Broglie.

From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015

In France, Prince Louis-Victor de Broglie, the scion of a ducal family, found that certain anomalies in the behavior of electrons disappeared when one regarded them as waves.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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