Five years after presenting his revolutionary theory, in 1929, Louis de Broglie was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his groundbreaking contribution, which remains fundamental to modern quantum ...

This week marks the centenary of the French physicist Louis de Broglie’s doctoral thesis, which later earned him a Nobel prize for “his discovery of the wave nature of electrons”. This discovery ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Quantum mechanics is both the most powerful theory physicists have ever devised and the most baffling. On the one hand, countless ...

The owner and savior of Paris's fashionable meccas of taxidermy, Deyrolle, built on his love for small-scale farming to transform the pastoral grounds of his Loire Valley château into an experiment in ...

Film director Francis Ford Coppola has come up with another historical figure to name his latest winery, using the moniker of a Nobel-prize winning scientist for his new Oregon property. The Family ...

French physicist Louis de Broglie proposed in 1924 that particles of matter have wave-like characteristics, with a wavelength (λ) given by the equation λ = h/p, where h is Planck's constant and p is ...