Louis-César-Victor-Maurice, 6th duc de Broglie was a French physicist, who made numerous contributions to the study of x-rays. His younger brother was the theoretical physicist Louis de Broglie, who received the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physics. Born into a wealthy aristocratic household, he had a private early education. Having graduated from naval officer's school, he spent nine years in the French Navy, serving on a gunboat at Bizerte and in the Mediterranean Squadron but leaving in 1904 to study science. He graduated from Collège de France in 1908 with a PhD. In 1907, he established a laboratory in the family's mansion. His research was halted during his service in World War I. In 1901, he married to Camille Bernou de Rochetaillée, and the couple had one daughter, who died at age six. In 1740 Louis XIV had conferred the hereditary title of "duc" on the head of the family. Upon his father's death, he inherited this title, and upon his death in 1960, his younger life-long-bachelor brother Louis inherited the title, which went to distant a cousin after Louis's death. He was a member of the Académie des sciences in 1924, and in 1934 was elected to the Académie française and the British Royal Society of London. He received the Hughes Medal in 1928.
Louis-César-Victor-Maurice, 6th duc de Broglie was a French physicist, who made numerous contributions to the study of x-rays. His younger brother was the theoretical physicist Louis de Broglie, who received the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physics. Born into a wealthy aristocratic household, he had a private early education. Having graduated from naval officer's school, he spent nine years in the French Navy, serving on a gunboat at Bizerte and in the Mediterranean Squadron but leaving in 1904 to study science. He graduated from Collège de France in 1908 with a PhD. In 1907, he established a laboratory in the family's mansion. His research was halted during his service in World War I. In 1901, he married to Camille Bernou de Rochetaillée, and the couple had one daughter, who died at age six. In 1740 Louis XIV had conferred the hereditary title of "duc" on the head of the family. Upon his father's death, he inherited this title, and upon his death in 1960, his younger life-long-bachelor brother Louis inherited the title, which went to distant a cousin after Louis's death. He was a member of the Académie des sciences in 1924, and in 1934 was elected to the Académie française and the British Royal Society of London. He received the Hughes Medal in 1928.
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