Felix Bloch

Felix Bloch was a male physicist and university teacher specializing in nuclear physics. He was born in Zurich in 1905 and died in Zurich in 1983. Bloch held citizenship in the United States and Switzerland. He was educated at ETH Zurich and Leipzig University. His doctoral advisors were Werner Heisenberg and Peter Debye.

Bloch worked at Stanford University, Leiden University, ETH Zurich, and the Manhattan Project. His field of work included physics, electrons, ferromagnetism, and magnetic resonance. He is noted for his work on nuclear magnetic resonance. Bloch received the Nobel Prize in Physics and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics.

He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Physical Society, and the National Academy of Sciences. Bloch spoke French, English, and German. He is recognized in the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Physics collection, and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.