# #Mon Aug 09 11:51:55 CEST 2010 Text__u6l-sKObEd-WfYQ0GneCwQ_text=During investigations in his brother\u2019s laboratory de Broglie is struck by the idea that matter can be conceived as a wave. He writes his dissertation on the subject in 1924 at the Sorbonne and receives the Nobel Prize for physics for his discovery of the wave nature of electrons in 1929. Text__u6l-sKObEd-WfYQ0GneCwQ_title=Louis de Broglie\: Recherches sur la Th\u00E9orie des Quanta, Dissertation, 1924