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  Maurice, 6th duc de Broglie - Wikipedia
Having graduated from naval officer's school, Maurice de Broglie spent nine years in the French Navy, serving on a gunboat at Bizerte and in the Mediterranean Squadron.
After Louis de Broglie's rise to prominence in the 1920s, building on some of their shared research, the elder Broglie physicist continued his own research.
He became a member of the Académie des sciences in 1924, and in 1934 was elected to the Académie française, replacing the historian Pierre de La Gorce.
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 BROGLIE. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Victor Maurice, comte de Broglie, 1647–1727, was marshal of France and fought in the wars of King Louis XIV.
Charles François, comte de Broglie, 1719–81, brother of Victor François, was ambassador to Poland (1752) and later headed the “secret cabinet” of Louis XV, the king’s secret organization of political advisers and spies.
Achille Charles Léon Victor, duc de Broglie, 1785–1870, grandson of Victor François, was a statesman and diplomat under Emperor Napoleon I and a leader of the moderate liberals after the Restoration.
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 Louis-Victor de Broglie - Wikipedia
De Broglie gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Physiker des 20.
Maurice, der sich nach dem Tode des Vaters 1906 um Erziehung und Entwicklung seines jüngeren Bruders gekümmert hatte, versorgte Louis nun mit den Texten der Referate und Diskussionen des ersten Solvay-Kongresses, der 1911 in Brüssel stattfand.
Durch den Ersten Weltkrieg musste de Broglie sein Studium mehrere Jahre unterbrechen.
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 BROGLIE - LoveToKnow Article on BROGLIE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
In 1742 de Broglie was appointed to command the French army in Germany, but such powers as he had possessed were failing him, and he had always been the man of small means, safe and cautious, but lacking in elasticity and daring.
AcHILLE CHARLES LEONCE VIcToR, Due DE BROGUE (1785 1870), statesman and diplomatist, son of the lastnamed, was born at Paris on the 28th of November 1785.
From 1836 to 1848 de Broglie held almost completely aloof from politics, to which his scholarly temperament little inclined him, a disinclination strengthened by the death of his wife on the 22nd of September 1838.
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 Louis, 7th duc de Broglie - Wikipedia
Louis-Victor-Pierre-Raymond, 7th duc de Broglie, generally known as Louis de Broglie (August 15, 1892–March 19, 1987), was a French physicist and Nobel Prize laureate.
In his later career, Louis de Broglie worked to develop a causal explanation of wave mechanics, in opposition to the wholly probabilistic models which dominate quantum mechanical theory.
Louis de Broglie became a member of the Académie des sciences in 1933, and was the academy's perpetual secretary from 1942.
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 BROGLIE, DE - Online Information article about BROGLIE, DE
Marie, FRANCOIS MARIE, afterwards DUC DE BROGLIE (1671-1745), entered the army at an early age, and had a varied career of active service before he was made, at the age of twenty-three, lieutenant-colonel of the king's regiment of cavalry.
In 1742 de Broglie was appointed to command the French army in Germany, but such powers as he had possessed were failing him, and he had always been the " man of small means," safe and cautious, but lacking in elasticity and daring.
The son of Victor Francois, VICTOR CLAUDE, PRINCE DE BROGLIE (1757-1794), served in the army, attaining the rank of marechal de camp.
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 Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie - Wikipedia
Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie (12 March 1647–4 August 1727), was a French soldier and general.
The son of François-Marie, comte de Broglie, he served under Condé, Turenne, and other commanders of the age of Louis XIV in the Franco-Dutch War and other conflicts.
The second son, Charles-Guillaume, marquis de Broglie, was his heir, while the third son, François-Marie, a general and a marshal of France like his father, became the first duc de Broglie.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Maurice-Jean de Broglie
Maurice returned to France in 1803, and the steps he took to recover some family property not yet sold, brought him to the attention of Napoleon, who invited him to his court and named him his almoner.
De Broglie with the Bishops of Namur and Tournai, and the Vicars-General of Mechlin and Liege took up the defence of the Catholic cause, and issued a pastoral instruction and, later on, a doctrinal judgment on the required oath to the Constitution.
In 1819, de Broglie printed a protest concerning the state of religious affairs in Belgium, which was addressed to the Emperors of Austria and Russia and to the King of Prussia.
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 Science Fair Projects - De Broglie
The title of Duc de Broglie was a French peerage belonging to a family of Piedmontese origin, which emigrated to France in the year 1643.
His grandson, also named François-Marie, was created duc de Broglie and a peer of France in 1742.
Maurice, 6th duc de Broglie (1875-1960), physicist, member of the Académie française and the Académie des sciences
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His brother Maurice de Broglie was at that time carrying out experimental work on X-rays and this proved a considerable interest to de Broglie during the first few years of the 1920s during which he worked for his doctorate.
De Broglie's doctoral thesis Recherches sur la théorie des quanta (Researches on the quantum theory) of 1924 put forward this theory of electron waves, based on the work of Einstein and Planck.
De Broglie's theory of electron matter waves was later used by Schrödinger, Dirac and others to develop wave mechanics.
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 Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie (12 March 1647–4 August 1727), was a (The Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France) French (An enlisted man or woman who serves in an army) soldier and (A general officer of the highest rank) general.
He was named maréchal de camp in 1676, (Click link for more info and facts about lieutenant-general) lieutenant-general in 1688, and finally (Click link for more info and facts about marshal of France) marshal of France in 1724, just three years before his death.
The second son, Charles-Guillaume, marquis de Broglie, was his heir, while the third son, (Click link for more info and facts about François-Marie) François-Marie, a general and a marshal of France like his father, became the first (Click link for more info and facts about duc de Broglie) duc de Broglie.
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 Maurice DeBroglie Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Louis-César-Victor-Maurice de Broglie, known as Maurice, was a distinguished physicist who made many contributions to the study of X-rays.
Maurice presented a thesis to the University of Paris on Brownian motion.
Maurice thus set a precedent of scientific work in the de Broglie family, which was followed by his younger brother, Louis (born in 1892, seventeen years after Maurice).
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 Broglie on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Victor Maurice, comte de Broglie, 1647-1727, was marshal of France and fought in the wars of King Louis XIV.
Charles François, comte de Broglie, 1719-81, brother of Victor François, was ambassador to Poland (1752) and later headed the “secret cabinet” of Louis XV, the king's secret organization of political advisers and spies.
Achille Charles Léon Victor, duc de Broglie, 1785-1870, grandson of Victor François, was a statesman and diplomat under Emperor Napoleon I and a leader of the moderate liberals after the Restoration.
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 Quantum Physics: Louis de Broglie: Confirming de Broglie's Matter Waves / WaveLength of Quantum Physics Biography
In 1933 de Broglie was elected to the Académie des Sciences becoming Permanent Secretary for the mathematical sciences in 1942.
De Broglie noted that relativity theory predicts that, when such a particle is set in motion, its total relativistic energy will increase, tending to infinity as the speed of light is approached.
It was this apparent incompatibility between the tendency of the relativistic energy to increase and the quantum energy to decrease that troubled de Broglie.
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 MARIE EDME PATRICE MAURICE DE MACMAHON - LoveToKnow Article on MARIE EDME PATRICE MAURICE DE MACMAHON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
MACMAHON, MARIE EDME PATRICE MAURICE DE, duke of Magenta (18o8I 893), French marshal and president of the French republic, was born on the 13th of July 1808 at the chteau of Sully, near Autun.
The duc de Broglie was empowered to form a Conservative administration, but the president also took an early opportunity of showing that he intended to uphold the sovereignty of the National Assembly.
The due de Broglie formed a ministry, but Gambetta carried a resolution in the Chamber of Deputies in favor of parliamentary government.
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 AllRefer.com - Broglie (French History, Biography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
His son FranCois Marie, duc de Broglie, 1671–1745, marshal of France, fought at Malplaquet (1709), in the War of the Polish Succession, and in the War of the Austrian Succession.
Charles FranCois, comte de Broglie, 1719–81, brother of Victor FranCois, was ambassador to Poland (1752) and later headed the "secret cabinet" of Louis XV, the king's secret organization of political advisers and spies.
Achille Charles LEon Victor, duc de Broglie, 1785–1870, grandson of Victor FranCois, was a statesman and diplomat under Emperor Napoleon I and a leader of the moderate liberals after the Restoration.
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 Broglie, Maurice, 6e duc de --  Encyclopædia Britannica
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The vivid verse and prose of 19th-century French Romantic writer Maurice de Guérin are colored by his intense love of nature.
French diplomat and economist Maurice Couve de Murville served a record term as foreign minister, from 1958 to 1968.
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 CHARLES MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-P?gord (February 2, 1754 - May 17, 1838) was a French diplomat.
In 1792 he was sent twice, though not officially, to Britain to avert war: Besides an initial declaration of neutrality during the first campaigns of 1792, it ultimately failed.
Under King Louis-Philippe he was ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1830-34, where he strived to reinforce the legitimacy of Louis-Phillipe which came to power after 1830 Revolution (also known as the July Revolution).
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 Articles - Victor, 5th duc de Broglie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Eldest son of the monarchist politician Albert, 4th duc de Broglie, he was born in Rome, where his father had a diplomatic post.
With her he had four children who survived to adulthood, including two sons, Maurice and Louis, both of whom were physicists and both of whom would hold the ducal title.
He acceded to the title of duc de Broglie on his father's death in 1901, but died only a few years later, passing the title to his eldest son, Maurice, 6th duc de Broglie.
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 Broglie, Louis-Victor, 7e duc de --  Encyclopædia Britannica
duc de Broglie French physicist best known for his research on quantum theory and for his discovery of the wave nature of electrons.
Born in Boston, Mass., on Jan. 13, 1899, motion picture producer and director Louis de Rochemont is best known for The March of Time, a highly popular newsreel series on current events that he produced from 1935 to 1951.
As governor general of New France for two terms, from 1672 to 1682 and 1689 to 1698, Louis de Frontenac pushed the extension of that North American French colony west to present-day Manitoba and south to the Gulf of Mexico.
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 Louis Victor Pierre Raymond VII duque Broglie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Descendente de família aristocrática de ricos e nobres italianos de Piemonte, radicados na França (1640), de ilustres militares, políticos e diplomatas, formou-se em Licenciatura em História (1910) e logo depois cursou um ano de Direito.
Maurice incentivou-o a ler os trabalhos de Jules Henri Poincaré (1854-1912), que tratavam da aplicação da análise matemática aos problemas da astronomia e a certos fenômenos físicos do mundo macroscópico.
Estes trabalhos iniciais demonstravam a insuficiência das teorias clássicas para a explicação de novos fenômenos descobertos e a necessidade de introduzir o conceito de quantum de luz.
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 De Broglie - new and used books
Broglie, Louis de,- - Louis de Broglie und die Physiker.
Souvenirs - 1785-1870 - du feu duc de Broglie.
Broglie (duc de) - Mémoires du duc de Broglie.
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 Broglie, Maurice, duc de on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
1875-1960, French physicist; brother of Louis Victor, duc de Broglie.
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Marguerite de France as Minerva: a sixteenth-century Limoges painted enamel by Jean de Court in the Wallace Collection.(Critical Essay)
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 Louis De Broglie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Mais le goût des sciences l'emporta en lui en partie grâce à son frère aîné Maurice de Broglie, et il passa une licence de physique en 1913.
En 1919, il entra au laboratoire des rayons X de son frère et se spécialisa en physique théorique.
Outre ses travaux, de Broglie s'adonnait à l'histoire et à la philosophie des sciences.
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 Louis de Broglie - Biography
At the end of the war Louis de Broglie resumed his studies of general physics.
While taking an interest in the experimental work carried out by his elder brother, Maurice, and co-workers, he specialized in theoretical physics and, in particular, in the study of problems involving quanta.
Elected a member of the Academy of Sciences of the French Institute in 1933, Louis de Broglie has been its Permanent Secretary for the mathematical sciences since 1942.
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 Louis de Broglie
Il fit d'abord des études lettres et obtint une licence d'histoire et de droit.
Mais le goût des sciences l'emporta, en partie grâce à son frère aîné Maurice de Broglie, et il passa une licence de physique en 1913.
En 1919, il entra au laboratoire des rayons X de son frère et se spécialisa enphysique théorique.
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 Maurice de BROGLIE : astrology and planets, Map of the Heavens, Interactive Birth Chart
Depending of the fact that the time of birth is known or not, 6 or 11 planets distributions and planets dominants have been computed for the natal chart of Maurice de BROGLIE.
Only 6 diagrams out of 11 are displayed, and precision of these computations is of course not of the same level than those for the case of the known time of the event.
Texts are not translated, so if you wish to read interpretations associated with theses computations, you need to go to the full astrological Portrait of Maurice de BROGLIE and to use this Automatic Free Website Translator.
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