De Broglie hypothesis
Hipótesis de De Broglie
- Date
- 1924 · confidence high
- Place
- Paris, France
- Credited to
- Louis de Broglie
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
Proposes that every material particle has an associated wave nature, with a wavelength inversely proportional to its momentum (λ=h/p); it was the first unification of the wave and particle descriptions of matter.
What it led to
- Experimental confirmation through electron diffraction (Davisson-Germer and G. P. Thomson, 1927)
- Foundation of Schrödinger's wave quantum mechanics
- Basis of the electron microscope and of electron and neutron diffraction