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De Broglie was born in Dieppe, Seine-Maritime. He originally intended a career as a humanist, and recieved his first degree in history. Afterwards he turned his attention toward mathmatics and physics. In the first World War in 1914, he offered his services to the army in the devolopment of radio communications. In 1924, his doctorial thesis, Recherches sur la therorie des quonta (research on quantum therory) introduced his therory on electron waves.

Accroding to []: This wave/particle duality of nature turned out to be a key to the new atomic theory.
 * l =h/p **
 * h=Planck's constant = 6.634x10-34 Js **
 * p=(mass)x(velocity) **

A quote from [] "Determination of the stable motion of electrons in the atom introduces integers, and up to this point the only phenomena involving integers in physics were those of interference and of normal modes of vibration. This fact suggested to me the idea that electrons too could not be considered simply as particles, but that frequency (wave properties) must be assigned to them also." (**Louis de Broglie**, on Quantum Theory, 1929, Nobel Prize Speech)