Felix Bloch

Felix Bloch
Bloch in 1961
Born	(1905-10-23)23 October 1905 Zurich, Switzerland
Died	10 September 1983(1983-09-10) (aged 77) Zurich, Switzerland
Citizenship	Switzerland United States (1939–1983)
Alma mater	ETH Zurich University of Leipzig (PhD)
Known for	Bloch equations (1946)
Spouse	Lore Clara Misch ​ (m. 1940)​
Children	4
Awards	Nobel Prize in Physics (1952)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	University of Leipzig (1932–1933) Stanford University (1934–1954, from 1955) CERN
Thesis	Über die Quantenmechanik der Elektronen in Kristallgittern (On the quantum mechanics of electrons in crystal lattices) (1929)
Doctoral advisor	Werner Heisenberg
Other academic advisors	Peter Debye
Doctoral students	Carson D. Jeffries (1951)[1] Michael Schick (1967)[1]
1st Director-General of CERN
In office 1954–1955
Preceded by	Edoardo Amaldi (as Secretary-General)
Succeeded by	Cornelis Bakker

Felix Bloch (/blɒk/;^[2] German: [blɔx] ^ⓘ; 23 October 1905 – 10 September 1983) was a Swiss-American physicist^[3] who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics with Edward Mills Purcell "for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith".^[4] 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.