Felix Bloch

Felix Bloch
Felix Bloch
Born	23 October 1905; Zürich, Switzerland
Died	10 September 1983 (aged 77); Zürich, Switzerland
Nationality	Swiss
Citizenship	Swiss; American;
Alma mater	ETH Zürich; University of Leipzig;
Known for	NMR spectroscopy; Magnon; 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	Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts (1979); Fritz London Memorial Lecture (1959); Guggenheim Fellowship (1959); Nobel Prize for Physics (1952)
	Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Stanford University; University of California, Berkeley;
Doctoral advisor	Werner Heisenberg
Doctoral students	Carson D. Jeffries

Felix Bloch (23 October 1905 – 10 September 1983) was a Swiss-American physicist and Nobel physics laureate who worked mainly in the U.S. 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." 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.

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