Maurice de Broglie, 6th Duke of Broglie

Maurice de Broglie, 6th Duke of Broglie (1875 to 1960) was a French physicist whose younger brother was the theoretical physicist Louis de Broglie. Born in Paris to Victor de Broglie and Pauline de La Forest d'Armaillé, he married Camille Bernou de Rochetaillée in 1901 and they had one daughter, Laure, who died aged six in 1911. He acceded to the title of duc de Broglie on his father's death in 1906 and died on 14 July 1960 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, after which his brother Louis succeeded him as duke. After graduating from naval officer's school he spent nine years in the French Navy, serving on a gunboat at Bizerte and in the Mediterranean Squadron, and while serving he became interested in physics and began research on electromagnetism.