Matter and Light: The New Physics

by Louis de Broglie

This is a new publication of Louis de Broglie's book Matter and The New Physics. From Aurélien Drezet's
"Historians of physics will find in the book detailed descriptions of the then new discoveries associated with wave mechanics and quantum mechanics... The general public will find in this remarkable book a very clean presentation of the ideas of quantum mechanics. De Broglie was indeed a great scientific writer using all his talent to communicate the beauty of quantum physics without letting the readers be confused by the vague attitude of weirdness that we find unfortunately so often in many presentations of quantum physics"

Genres: Physics, Science, Philosophy, Quantum Mechanics, Nonfiction

245 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1946

About the author

Louis-Victor-Pierre-Raymond, 7th duc de Broglie, ForMemRS was an eminent French physicist who gained worldwide acclaim for his groundbreaking work on quantum theory. In his 1924 thesis, he proposed the wave nature of electrons and suggested that all matter has wave properties - this concept is known as wave-particle duality or the de Broglie hypothesis. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1929. The wave-like behaviour of particles discovered by de Broglie was used by Erwin Schrödinger in his formulation of wave mechanics. Louis de Broglie was the sixteenth member elected to occupy seat 1 of the Académie française in 1944, and served as Perpetual Secretary of the French Academy of Sciences.