Published 1992 | Version v1
Book

Louis de Broglie: A Prince of Science

Creators

  • 1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 75 - Paris (France)

Description

Louis de Broglie was one of the physicists that change our vision of the world, Nobel Prize in 1929 for the discovery of wave properties of matter he made a synthesis of the two theories corpuscular and undulatory of matter as well as light which seemed irreconcilable at that time. The book recalls its family origins and describes the writer, the humanist as well as the scientist. But above all the scientific work is explained in simple words. 114 refs

Additional details

Additional titles

Original title (French)
Louis de Broglie, un Prince de la science

Publishing Information

Publisher
Flammarion.
Imprint Place
Paris (France)
ISBN
2-08-211553-4
Imprint Pagination
264 p.

INIS

Country of Publication
France
Country of Input or Organization
France
INIS RN
24051531
Subject category
S99: GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS;
Descriptors DEI
HISTORICAL ASPECTS; QUANTUM MECHANICS
Descriptors DEC
MECHANICS