Felix Bloch

Felix Bloch
Bloch in 1961
Born(1905-10-23)23 October 1905
Zurich, Switzerland
Died10 September 1983(1983-09-10) (aged 77)
Zurich, Switzerland
Citizenship
  • Switzerland
  • United States (1939–1983)
Alma mater
Known forBloch equations (1946)
Spouse
Lore Clara Misch
(m. 1940)
Children4
AwardsNobel Prize in Physics (1952)
Honors Pour le Mérite (1979)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
Institutions
Doctoral advisorWerner Heisenberg
Doctoral studentsCarson D. Jeffries (1951)

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.

  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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