The French physicist Louis Victor de Broglie suggested in 1924 that since the electromagnetic waves corpuscular some characteristics, the particles should also be present in some cases wave properties.
This prediction was experimentally verified a few years later by the American physicists Clinton Davisson and Lester Halbert Germer and physicist Sir George Paget Thomson , who showed that a beam of electrons scattered by a crystal gives rise to a figure of diffraction property of a wave. The wave-particle concept led to the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger to develop a ‘wave equation’ to describe the wave properties of a particle and, more specifically, the wave behavior of the electron in the hydrogen atom.
The French physicist Louis Victor de Broglie suggested in 1924 that
since the electromagnetic waves corpuscular some characteristics, the
particles should also be present in some cases wave properties.
This prediction was experimentally verified a few years later by the
American physicists Clinton Davisson and Lester Halbert Germer and
physicist Sir George Paget Thomson , who showed that a beam of
electrons scattered by a crystal gives rise to a figure of diffraction
property of a wave. The wave-particle concept led to the Austrian
physicist Erwin Schrödinger to develop a ‘wave equation’ to describe
the wave properties of a particle and, more specifically, the wave
behavior of the electron in the hydrogen atom.