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 Zürich University of Leipzig (PhD, 1928)
Known for	Formulating the Bloch equations (1946)
Spouse	Lore Clara Misch ​ (m. 1940)​
Children	4
Awards	Nobel Prize in Physics (1952)
Honors	Pour le Mérite (1979)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics Nuclear physics
Institutions	University of Leipzig (1932–1933) Stanford University (1934–1954, from 1955) CERN (Director-General, 1954–1955)
Doctoral advisor	Werner Heisenberg
Doctoral students	Carson D. Jeffries

Felix Bloch (/blɒk/; German: [ˈfeːlɪks ˈblɔx]; 23 October 1905 – 10 September 1983) was a Swiss-American physicist^[1] 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".^[2] 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.