Louis de Broglie
Type: Person
As of November 2026, Louis de Broglie has been mentioned in one podcast episode on PBS Space Time (Dec 2025). Introduced for the matter-wave hypothesis that inspired Schrödinger’s wave mechanics and helped reinterpret Bohr’s quantized orbits as standing waves.
Louis Victor Pierre Raymond, 7th Duc de Broglie was a French theoretical physicist and aristocrat known for his contributions to quantum theory. In his 1924 Ph.D. thesis, he postulated the wave nature of electrons and suggested that all matter has wave properties. This concept is known as the de Broglie hypothesis, an example of wave–particle duality, and forms a central part of the theory of quantum mechanics. In 1929, de Broglie won the Nobel Prize in Physics, after the wave-like behaviour of
| Mentioned in | 1 episode on 1 podcast (as of November 2026) |
|---|---|
| First heard | Dec 2025 on PBS Space Time |
| Role | Physicist |
| Affiliation | University of Paris / Sorbonne (historical) |
Who talks about Louis de Broglie on podcasts?
PBS Space Time Host brought up Louis de Broglie; the most recent mention was Dec 2025 on PBS Space Time.
- Heisenberg Made a Discovery in 1925. We Still Can't Explain It on PBS Space Time (Dec 2025) — PBS Space Time Host