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Noun: de Broglie  du'broy or du'brow-glee
  1. French nuclear physicist who generalized the wave-particle duality by proposing that particles of matter exhibit wavelike properties (1892-1987)
    - Louis de Broglie, Broglie, Louis Victor de Broglie

Type of: nuclear physicist

Encyclopedia: De Broglie