Felix Bloch

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Felix Bloch was a Swiss-American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in nuclear magnetic resonance and solid-state physics.


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instanceOf Nobel laureate in Physics
Swiss-American
human
physicist
theoretical physicist
awardReceived Max Planck Medal
Nobel Prize in Physics
causeOfDeath heart attack
citizenship Switzerland
United States of America
countryOfBirth Switzerland
countryOfDeath Switzerland
dateOfBirth 1905-10-23
dateOfDeath 1983-09-10
doctoralAdvisor Werner Heisenberg
educatedAt ETH Zürich
University of Leipzig
employer ETH Zürich
Los Alamos Laboratory
Stanford University
University of Leipzig
familyName Bloch
fieldOfWork nuclear magnetic resonance
nuclear physics
physics
solid-state physics
theoretical physics
givenName Felix
memberOf American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Physical Society
National Academy of Sciences
movement quantum mechanics
NobelPrizeMotivation for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith
NobelPrizeSharedWith Edward Mills Purcell
NobelPrizeYear 1952
notableContribution formulation of Bloch equations for nuclear magnetization dynamics
foundational work in solid-state physics
introduction of Bloch waves to describe electrons in crystals
pioneering work in nuclear magnetic resonance
notableStudent Charles P. Slichter
notableWork Bloch equations
Bloch theorem
Bloch waves
theory of nuclear induction
placeOfBirth Zürich
placeOfDeath Zürich
positionHeld first director-general of CERN
professor at Stanford University
sexOrGender male


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