Felix Bloch

Felix Bloch

• Born on October 23,1905

• Born in Zurich, Switzerland

• Parents: Gustav Bloch and Agnes Bloch

• After one year of studying engineering switched to physics

• 1928-received degree of Doctor of Philosophy in

• 1934-accepted job position offered at Stanford University

• Realized the magnetic moment of the neutrons could be obtained through observation of scattering iron

• 1936- wrote paper that worked out details of phenomenon

• Led experiment, carried out with L.W. Alvarez at the Berkeley cyclotron

• was engaged in the early stages of work on atomic energy at Stanford University

• new method: combining it with essential elements of earlier work on magnetic moment of the neutron, to remeasure this important quantity

• 1946-Bloch & E.Purcell independently introduced nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR).

• His more recent theoretical work dealt primarily with problems which have arisen in conjunction with experiments carried out in his laboratory

• 1961-received an endowed Chair by appointment as Max Stein

• 1954-Bloch took leave of absence to serve one year as first Director General of CERN

• return to Stanford University & continued his investigations on nuclear magnetism

• investigations begun after return to Stanford in the fall of 1945

• resulted shortly afterward in collaboration with W.W. Hansen and M.E. Packard

• new method of nuclear induction, a purely electromagnetic procedure for the study of nuclear moments in solids, liquids, or gases

• Bloch married in 1940 Dr. Lore Misch

• Dr. Lore Misch was a refugee from Germany

• Died September 10, 1983 in Zurich

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