Felix Bloch - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1952
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Felix Bloch

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1952
for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith
Together with: Edward Mills Purcell
Citizenship
United States United States Switzerland Switzerland
Languages
English, French, German
date of birth
10/23/1905
place of birth
Zurich
date of death
9/10/1983
place of death
Zurich
Lived
77 years
employer
  • Leiden University
    • start time: 11/11/1971
    • end time: 5/31/1972
  • Manhattan Project
    • end time: November 1943
  • Stanford University
  • ETH Zurich
member of
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1965
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1948
  • Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • American Physical Society
position held
  • Director General of CERN
    • end time: August 1955
    • start time: October 1954
field of work
  • ferromagnetism
  • crystallographic lattice
  • electron
  • physics
  • magnetic resonance
doctoral student
  • Carson D. Jeffries
  • Michael Schick
educated at
  • Leipzig University
  • ETH Zurich
notable work
  • nuclear magnetic resonance
occupation
  • physicist
  • university teacher
  • nuclear physicist
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