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 StatesUnited StatesSwitzerlandSwitzerland
Languages
German, English, French
date of birth
10/23/1905
place of birth
Zurich
date of death
9/10/1983
place of death
Zurich
Lived
77 years
occupation
  • university teacher
  • nuclear physicist
  • physicist
field of work
  • magnetic resonance
  • ferromagnetism
  • crystallographic lattice
  • electron
  • physics
educated at
  • ETH Zurich
  • Leipzig University
employer
  • ETH Zurich
  • Manhattan Project
    • end time: November 1943
  • Leiden University
    • start time: 11/11/1971
    • end time: 5/31/1972
  • Stanford University
position held
  • Director General of CERN
    • start time: October 1954
    • end time: August 1955
member of
  • Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1948
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1965
  • American Physical Society
doctoral student
  • Michael Schick
  • Carson D. Jeffries
notable work
  • nuclear magnetic resonance
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