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Felix Bloch

1905 - 1983

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Felix Bloch (23 October 1905 – 10 September 1983) was a Swiss-American theoretical physicist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics with Edward Mills Purcell "for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith". 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Felix Bloch is the 158th most popular physicist (down from 133rd in 2019), the 35th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 43rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Swiss Physicist.

Felix Bloch is most famous for his work in quantum mechanics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1952 for his work in quantum electrodynamics.

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Among physicists, Felix Bloch ranks 158 out of 851. Before him are Henry Moseley, Laura Bassi, John Kendrew, Javier Solana, Jean-Baptiste Biot, and Frits Zernike. After him are Hans Georg Dehmelt, Johann Jakob Balmer, Joseph Henry, Hippolyte Fizeau, Augustin-Jean Fresnel, and Georges Charpak.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Felix Bloch ranks 19. Before him are Carl David Anderson, Fred Trump, Faustina Kowalska, Mikhail Sholokhov, Emilio Segrè, and Astrid of Sweden. After him are Marcel Lefebvre, Vasily Grossman, Arthur Koestler, Raymond Aron, Ulf von Euler, and Artem Mikoyan. Among people deceased in 1983, Felix Bloch ranks 10. Before him are Buckminster Fuller, Luis Buñuel, Umberto II of Italy, Leopold III of Belgium, Hergé, and Albert Claude. After him are Idris of Libya, Jon Brower Minnoch, John Vorster, Tennessee Williams, Benigno Aquino Jr., and David Niven.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Felix Bloch ranks 35 out of 1,015. Before him are Arnold Böcklin (1827), Albert Hofmann (1906), Jacob Burckhardt (1818), Emil Theodor Kocher (1841), Joan Gamper (1877), and Carlo Maderno (1556). After him are Franz Mesmer (1734), Johann Jakob Balmer (1825), Paul Hermann Müller (1899), Jacques Necker (1732), Carl Spitteler (1845), and Aga Khan IV (1936).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Switzerland

Among physicists born in Switzerland, Felix Bloch ranks 4. Before him are Charles Édouard Guillaume (1861), K. Alex Müller (1927), and Heinrich Rohrer (1933). After him are Johann Jakob Balmer (1825), Auguste Piccard (1884), Ami Argand (1750), Walter H. Schottky (1886), Raoul Pictet (1846), Walther Ritz (1878), Jakob II Bernoulli (1759), and Georges-Louis Le Sage (1724).

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