[broh-glee, broh-glee, broi; Fr. braw-glee] 
| Louis Vic⋅tor de [lwee veek-tawr duh] . de Broglie, Louis Victor. |
| Bro·glie (brô-glē') French physicist who demonstrated (1927) that particles exhibit wavelike properties, thus establishing the field of wave mechanics. He won a 1929 Nobel Prize. |
| Broglie (brô-glē') Pronunciation Key
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. |
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