De Broglie was among those who refused the Copenhagen reading, and he proposed his pilot wave theory in 1927. According to this model, matter is made up of particles, ...

De Broglie was a cultivated woman of high social standing. She had grown up playing piano, painting watercolors and attending the opera. Later, in her 40s and 50s, ...

“De Broglie made the reverse discovery of Einstein by associating waves to matter,” Damour said. This groundbreaking idea marked a crucial step in the evolution of quantum mechanics.

The original waves. In 1924, French physics doctoral student Louis de Broglie proposed that matter has a wave-like property. De Broglie was inspired by the discovery of wave-particle duality in light.

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