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Wavelength is inversely proportional to momentum (of a particle such as an electron - or any having mass) was proposed by LDB for his doctoral thesis in 1924

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Who stated that matter behaves as both waves and particles?

Louis de Broglie


Who first wrote the electron waves equation that led to the mechanical model?

Erwin Schrodinger, a German physicist,


What did Louis de Broglie discover?

Louis de Broglie was a French physicist who contributed largely to quantum theory. He proposed in 1924 that electrons could behave as waves, and that these particles do not move in regular orbits..


Who Proposed that electrons behave as waves?

Louis de Broglie proposed the matter wave theory and the corresponding equation then Lester Germer and Clinton Davisson confirmed it to be true, by experimentation, for electrons.


What did De Broglie refer to wavelike particle behavior as?

De Broglie referred to wavelike particle behavior as wave-particle duality.


Who proposed the dual wave-particle nature of the electron?

Einstein not only had nothing to do with suggesting a wave nature of electrons, he was VERY vocal in his lifelong opposition to the concept of electron waves being fundamental to their existence. He agreed they SEEMED to exhibit wave-like characteristics, he simply thought a more fundamental explanation would show this was simply an "approximation" to reality. Louis de Broglie, in his 1924 thesis, first proposed the idea that electrons had a wave nature, with a wavelength dependent on a particle's momenutum. Experiments in 1927 showed that he was correct.


Why did Louis de Broglie think radio waves could be used to explain the atom?

Louis de Broglie proposed that matter, like electrons, exhibits wave-like properties, similar to how radio waves behave. He theorized that the wave nature of particles could help explain atomic structure and behavior, as it allows for the concept of standing waves, which can represent electrons in stable orbits around the nucleus. This wave-particle duality provides a framework for understanding the quantization of energy levels in atoms, bridging the gap between classical physics and quantum mechanics.


The french scientist Louis de broglie theorized that?

Louis de Broglie theorized that matter, like electrons and other particles, could exhibit wave-like properties. This led to the development of wave-particle duality in quantum mechanics, where particles can act as both particles and waves. His work earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1929.


How de broglie's hypothesis help to explain the stability of the atom?

de broglie explain stability of atom by explaining that like in standing waves energy does not transfer and as we say that every shell has definite energy so the electron exist in atom in form of waves as whole number of standing waves


Who discovered than electrons had adual nature-similar to both particles and waves?

de Broglie


Why do you say that electrons have wave properties?

It was not just DeBroglie that reached that conclusion, others contributed to that theory, like Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg and Schrödinger. What DeBroglie did was to establish that matter in general has that duality, but it can only be observed in microscopic particles, like electrons, because they are so small and travelling so fast that the wave nature is apparent. His formula can be used for any object, but only at the microscopic level is where we can observe the wave properties of a particle.


How did de broglie test his theory?

de Broglie waves for electrons have wavelengths similar to that of x-rays, which diffract when sent through certain crystals according to the Laue phenomenon. These wavelengths where fist confirmed by diffraction by Davisson and Germer.