Felix Bloch

Felix Bloch
Bloch in 1961
Born	(1905-10-23)23 October 1905 Zürich, Switzerland
Died	10 September 1983(1983-09-10) (aged 77) Zürich, Switzerland
Nationality	Swiss
Citizenship	Swiss American
Alma mater	ETH Zürich University of Leipzig
Known for	NMR spectroscopy Magnon Radiative Auger effect Spin wave Tight binding Inverse cyclotron converter Bloch equations Bloch oscillation Bloch wave Bloch wall Bloch's theorem Bloch sphere Bloch spectrum Bloch T3/2 law Bloch–Grüneisen temperature Bloch–Nordsieck theorem Bloch–Siegert shift Bethe–Bloch formula
Awards	Nobel Prize for Physics (1952) Fritz London Memorial Lecture (1959) Guggenheim Fellowship (1959) Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts (1979)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Stanford University University of California, Berkeley
Doctoral advisor	Werner Heisenberg
Doctoral students	Carson D. Jeffries

Felix Bloch (/blɒk/; German: [blɔx]; 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.