2-359-889 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Louis de Broglie, French physicist, 1933. De Broglie's (1892-1987) work on a new branch of quantum physics called wave mechanics won him the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1929. The de Broglie hypothesis states that every moving particle or object has an associated wave. A photograph from Album de Photographies, Dans L'Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1850-1950, Editions MD, 22 Rue de L'Arcade, Paris 8, 1850-1950.