Maurice de Broglie, 6th Duke of Broglie was a French physicist. His younger brother was the theoretical physicist Louis de Broglie.
De Broglie in 1932
French Academy of Sciences
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The French Academy of Sciences is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research. It was
Maurice de Broglie, 6th Duke of Broglie
…physicist continued his own research. While Louis was primarily a theoretician, Maurice's focus was mainly experimental. De Broglie became a member of the Académie des sciences in 1924, and in 1934 was elected to the Académie française, replacing the historian Pierre de La Gorce. He had the unique honor of welcoming his own…
A heroic depiction of the activities of the Academy from 1698
Louis XIV visiting the Royal Academy of Sciences (Sébastien Leclerc I, France, 1671)
Illustration from Acta Eruditorum (1737) where was published Machines et inventions approuvées par l'Academie Royale des Sciences
The Institut de France in Paris where the academy is housed