de Broglie, Louis-Victor
Pronunciation: /də ˈbrəʊgli, də bʀɔj/
Definition of de Broglie, Louis-Victor
- Prince (1892–1987), French physicist. He was the first to suggest that subatomic particles can also have the properties of waves, and his name is now applied to such a wave. He further developed the study of wave mechanics, which was fundamental to the subsequent development of quantum mechanics. Nobel Prize for Physics (1929).