Aristocratic Culture and the Pursuit of Science : The De Broglies in Modern France

dc.creator	Nye, Mary Jo
dc.date.accessioned	2011-06-06T22:55:02Z
dc.date.available	2011-06-06T22:55:02Z
dc.date.issued	1997-09
dc.identifier.citation	Nye, M. J. (1997, September). Aristocratic Culture and the Pursuit of Science: The De Broglies in Modern France. Isis, 88(3), 397-421. Available from JSTOR website: http://www.jstor.org/stable/236150	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1957/21636
dc.description	Copyrighted and originally published by The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The History of Science Society and can be found at: http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=isis	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Louis de Broglie received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1929 following experimental confirmation of his theory of the wave properties of the electron. De Broglie was an anomaly among twentieth-century physicists: he was a prince by birth who would become the seventh duc de Broglie. What did it mean to be an aristocrat in an age of science? This essay explores aristocratic culture in France in the early twentieth century and examines the family life, education, scientific practices, and social values of Louis de Broglie, his brother Maurice, who was a distinguished experimental physicist, and their sister Pauline, who became a well-known novelist and literary scholar after her scientific interests were discouraged.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	The University of Chicago Press	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Isis	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Vol. 88, No.3 (1997)	en_US
dc.subject	De Broglies	en_US
dc.title	Aristocratic Culture and the Pursuit of Science : The De Broglies in Modern France	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US
dc.description.peerreview	yes	en_US