de Broglie

[ duh broh-glee, broh-glee, broi; French duh braw-glee ]
/ də broʊˈgli, ˈbroʊ gli, brɔɪ; French də brɔˈgli /

noun

Louis Vic·tor [French lwee veek-tawr] /French lwi vikˈtɔr/.1892–1987, French physicist: Nobel Prize 1929.

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British Dictionary definitions for broglie (1 of 2)

Broglie
/ (brɔj) /

noun

See de Broglie (def. 1)

British Dictionary definitions for broglie (2 of 2)

de Broglie
/ (French də brɔj) /

noun

Prince Louis Victor (lwi viktɔr). 1892–1987, French physicist, noted for his research in quantum mechanics and his development of wave mechanics: Nobel prize for physics 1929
his brother, Maurice (mɔris), Duc de Broglie. 1875–1960, French physicist, noted for his research into X-ray spectra

Scientific definitions for broglie

Broglie
[ brô-glē′ ]
Prince Louis-Victor de 1892-1987

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.