| 1892 |
born August 15 in Dieppe,
France |
| 1909 |
completed his secondary
school education |
| 1910 |
graduated with an arts degree but he was
already becoming interested in mathematics and physics |
| 1913 |
awarded his Licence ès Sciences |
| 1924 |
received doctorate with
thesis that put forward his theory of electron waves, based on the
work of Einstein and Planck |
| 1926 |
wrote Waves
and motions |
| 1928 |
became
professor of theoretical physics at the Henri Poincaré Institute |
| 1929 |
received the Nobel Prize |
| 1932 |
became professor of
theoretical physics at the Faculté des Sciences at the Sorbonne |
| 1933 |
elected to the Académie des Sciences |
| 1939 |
wrote
Matter and Light: The New Physics |
| 1942 |
became
the Acadamy of Sciences' Permanent Secretary for the mathematical
sciences |
| 1987 |
died March 19 in Paris,
France |
