Nobel Prize in Physics 1929

Prince Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie

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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1929 was awarded to Prince Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie "for his discovery of the wave nature of electrons"

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