Louis de Broglie. 1970

Louis de Broglie (1892-1987).

'The Reinterpretation of Wave Mechanics.' Offprint from: Foundations of Physics. New York: Springer, 1970.

An inscribed offprint: De Broglie reprises ideas in quantum mechanics that he first developed in the 1920s. De Broglie’s first contributions in 1923-1924 to wave mechanics, and Einstein’s theory of light quanta, attempted to present a concrete picture of the physical coexistence of waves and particles, which de Broglie termed 'the theory of the double solution.' Subsequent contributions to the field by Erwin Schrödinger and others took the field in a statistical direction that dissatisfied de Broglie and Einstein. In this article, de Broglie expands his old ideas, now introducing an element of randomness and a 'hidden thermodynamics of particles.'

Quarto (237 x 165mm). 5-15 pp. from Foundations of Physics, vol. 1, no. 1. Inscribed by de Broglie above caption title: 'Avec l’hommage de l’auteur. Louis de Broglie'. Provenance: Laszlo Magyar of Palić, Yugoslavia (postage label on back cover, postmarked 6 March 1973).

-