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Louis Victor de Broglié was elected Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Institut Henri Poincaré in 1928 and awarded the 1929 Nobel Prize for Physics for his discovery of the wave nature of electrons.
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GB 0120 MSS.1359-1361 c 1930 Collection (fonds) 3 volumes Broglié , Louis Victor , de , 1892-1987 , 7th Duc de Broglié , physicist x de Broglié , Louis Victor
Louis Victor de Broglié was elected Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Institut Henri Poincaré in 1928 and awarded the 1929 Nobel Prize for Physics for his discovery of the wave nature of electrons.
Presented 1937.
Addresses by Louis de Broglie including 1929 Nobel address, a fragment of a series of lectures at the Sorbonne and an address to a scientific conference in Warsaw in 1933.
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Described in: S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).
Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
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Feb 2009 Broglié , Louis Victor , de , 1892-1987 , 7th Duc de Broglié , physicist x de Broglié , Louis Victor Physics Magnetism Wave mechanics Electromagnetic waves Teaching methods Lectures (teaching method) Higher science education Medical education France Western Europe Europe Poland Eastern Europe
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Presented 1937.
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Addresses by Louis de Broglie including 1929 Nobel address, a fragment of a series of lectures at the Sorbonne and an address to a scientific conference in Warsaw in 1933.
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The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
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Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
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French
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Described in: S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).
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In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
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