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Broglie, Louis Victor de, Prince (1892-1987)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.1359-1361

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Broglie, Louis Victor de, Prince (1892-1987)

Date(s): c 1930

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 3 volumes

Name of creator(s): Broglié | Louis Victor | de | 1892-1987 | 7th Duc de Broglié | physicist x de Broglié | Louis Victor

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

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.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

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.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: French

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

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.

Finding aids:

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).

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented 1937.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: 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.

Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Lectures (teaching method) | Teaching methods
Medical education | Higher science education
Wave mechanics | Electromagnetic waves | Magnetism
Physics

Personal names
Broglié | Louis Victor | de | 1892-1987 | 7th Duc de Broglié | physicist x de Broglié | Louis Victor

Corporate names

Places
France | Western Europe | Europe
Poland | Eastern Europe