Felix Bloch
Felix Bloch | |
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Bloch in 1952 | |
| 1st Director-General of CERN | |
| In office 1954–1955 | |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Cornelis Bakker |
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| Born | 23 October 1905 Zurich, Switzerland |
| Died | 10 September 1983 (aged 77) Zurich, Switzerland |
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| Spouse |
Lore Misch (m. 1940) |
| Children | 4 |
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| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Thesis | Über die Quantenmechanik der Elektronen in Kristallgittern (1929) |
| Doctoral advisor | Werner Heisenberg |
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Felix Bloch (23 October 1905 – 10 September 1983) was a Swiss-American theoretical physicist 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".
He was the first Stanford University Nobel laureate.
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.