Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Louis de Broglie
Born: August 15, 1892
Died: March 19, 1987 (aged 94)
Bio: Louis-Victor-Pierre-Raymond, 7th duc de Broglie was a French physicist who made groundbreaking contributions to quantum theory. In his 1924 PhD thesis he postulated the wave nature of electrons and suggested that all matter has wave properties.
Known for:
- Matter and Light: The New Physics (1939)
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