Felix Bloch, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Felix Bloch

Swiss physicist (1905-1983)

Date of Birth: 23-Oct-1905

Place of Birth: Zürich, canton of Zürich, Switzerland

Date of Death: 10-Sep-1983

Profession: physicist, university teacher, nuclear physicist

Nationality: United States, Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

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 electron behavior in crystal lattices, ferromagnetism, and nuclear magnetic resonance.