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

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Nye, Mary Jo

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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...

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was perpetual secretary of the French Academy of Sciences from 1942 to 1976. Many younger French
Thomas Hobbes and the Duke of Newcastle: A Study in the Mutuality of Patronage before the Establishment of the Royal Society

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Sarasohn, Lisa T.

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This study shows how patronage framed and fashioned the careers of Thomas Hobbes and his patron William Cavendish, the earl of Newcastle. Newcastle's protection allowed Hobbes to articulate heterodox ideas without immediate fear of reprisal. It also enabled him to solidify his status as a gentleman and the intellectual equal...

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Exploratory Approach," in Patronage in the Renaissance, ed. G. F. Lytle and Stephen Orgel (Princeton, N.J