alleryStart learning →Who made a radical proposal in 1923 based on the hope that nature is symmetric?
AErwin Rudolf Schrodinger
BLouis-Victor de Broglie
CWerner Karl Heisenberg
DNiels Henrik Bohr
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Louis-Victor de Broglie
1. A graduate student extended duality from light to matter.
2. Light had been shown to behave as both wave and particle.
3. In 1923 a French physics graduate student made a radical proposal.
4. That was Prince Louis-Victor de Broglie, hoping nature is symmetric.
_Source: OpenStax College Physics for AP Courses 2e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 29 'Quantum Physics', sections 29.1-29.8_
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