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A Rhetorical Criticism of Louis de Broglie ’ s Nobel Lecture - With Focus on Narrative Analysis -

  • Journal of Humanities
  • 2023, (89), pp.287-318
  • DOI : 10.31310/HUM.089.09
  • Publisher : Institute for Humanities
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : March 30, 2023
  • Accepted : April 17, 2023
  • Published : May 31, 2023

Ku Ja- hyon 1

1영산대학교 성심교양대학

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ABSTRACT

This paper analyzes Louis de Broglie’s lecture on the Nobel Prize. According to Fisher’s narrative paradigm, human life is a narrative, and humans give meaning to their behaviors through a narrative. De Broglie’s Nobel Lecture presents the narratives of background, of discovery, and of recognition, consistent with the hypothetical narrative model to secure the structural coherence among the narrative possibility in the narrative paradigm. In other words, the problem of matter physics and radiation physics being separated and not seamlessly connected is deepened by the derivation of quantum concepts. De Broglie reaches the concept of matter waves by attempting to solve the problem through the parallelism between light and matter using natural symmetry. His concept of matter waves is later confirmed with the support of theories and experiments. To ensure the material coherence, the speaker utilizes the mystery of matter-radiation mismatch, natural symmetry, Einstein’s relativity theory, wave mechanics, and electron diffraction experiments. For the characteristic coherence, the speaker gives proper roles to the main character de Broglie and other supporters like Planck, Einstein, Schrodinger, Davidson and Germer, and G. P. Thompson. The truthfulness and reliability required to satisfy narrative fidelity in the narrative paradigm draw the support of the audience through fact-based discussions expected in general scientific writings.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.