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Felix Bloch

Felix Bloch (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.

This article is about the Swiss physicist. For the man accused of espionage, see Felix Bloch (diplomatic officer).

Felix Bloch

(1905-10-23)23 October 1905

Zürich, Switzerland

10 September 1983(1983-09-10) (aged 77)

Zürich, Switzerland

Swiss

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  • American

Physics

Werner Heisenberg

Carson D. Jeffries

List of Jewish Nobel laureates

List of things named after Felix Bloch

. Nature. 170 (4335): 911–912. 1952. Bibcode:1952Natur.170R.911.. doi:10.1038/170911b0. S2CID 4205574.

"Nobel Prize for Physics, 1952"

. Nature. 174 (4434): 774–775. 1954. Bibcode:1954Natur.174R.774.. doi:10.1038/174774c0. S2CID 4263821.

"Deputy Director-General: Prof. E. Amaldi"

McGraw-Hill Modern Men of Science. Vol. 1. . 1966. pp. 45–46. ISBN 978-0-07-045217-6.

McGraw-Hill

National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. 61. . 1984. pp. 310–312. ISBN 0-88371-040-4.

James T. White & Co

Bloch, F.; Staub, H. .

"Fission Spectrum", Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) (through predecessor agency Los Alamos Scientific Lab), United States Department of Energy (through predecessor agency the US Atomic Energy Commission), (August 18, 1943)

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