Bloch, Felix (1905–1983)
Swiss-born American physicist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics
with Edward Purcell for a method for determining the magnetic fields of
neutrons in atomic
nuclei. This was developed into the nuclear
magnetic resonance (NMR) method of determining chemical structures.
From 1934 Bloch was professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University
in California. He was the first director (1954–55) of Conseil Européen
pour la Recherche Nucléaire (CERN), the European center in Geneva
for research in high-energy particle physics. Related
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