Felix Bloch

Felix Bloch
Bloch in 1961
Born(1905-10-23)23 October 1905
Zürich, Switzerland
Died10 September 1983(1983-09-10) (aged 77)
Zürich, Switzerland
NationalitySwiss
Citizenship
  • Swiss
  • American
Alma mater
Known for
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
Institutions
Doctoral advisorWerner Heisenberg
Doctoral studentsCarson D. Jeffries

Felix Bloch (/blɒk/; German: [blɔx]; 23 October 1905 – 10 September 1983) was a Swiss-American physicist and Nobel physics laureate who worked mainly in the U.S.[1] He and Edward Mills Purcell were awarded the 1952 Nobel Prize for Physics for "their development of new ways and methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements."[2] In 1954–1955, he served for one year as the first director-general of CERN. Felix Bloch made fundamental theoretical contributions to the understanding of ferromagnetism and electron behavior in crystal lattices. He is also considered one of the developers of nuclear magnetic resonance.

  1. ^ Hofstadter, Robert (March 1984). "Obituary: Felix Bloch". Physics Today. 37 (3): 115–116. Bibcode:1984PhT....37c.115H. doi:10.1063/1.2916128. Archived from the original on 30 September 2013.
  2. ^ Sohlman, M (Ed.) Nobel Foundation directory 2003. Vastervik, Sweden: AB CO Ekblad; 2003.

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