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Louis de Broglie

Louis de Broglie was born in France in 1892. De Broglie was the first to theorize the particle and wave nature of matter which he published in 1924 for his Ph.D. This theory was proven by Clinton Davisson and Lester Germer in 1927 at Bell Labs in New York City. Erwin Shroodinger used de Broglies theory to develop his matter wave equation. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics for his work on particle wave duality. Louis de Broglie died in 1987. For more information on the life of Louis  de Broglie visit.

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