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Felix Bloch

1905 - 1983

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Felix Bloch (; German: [blɔx]; 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 ferromagnetism and electron behavior in crystal lattices. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Felix Bloch has received more than 475,955 page views. His biography is available in 76 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 70 in 2019). Felix Bloch is the 133rd most popular physicist (up from 143rd in 2019), the 43rd most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 52nd 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

Among physicists, Felix Bloch ranks 133 out of 851. Before him are François Englert, Robert Coleman Richardson, Arno Allan Penzias, Frits Zernike, Ernst Abbe, and Laura Bassi. After him are Walther Bothe, Hideki Yukawa, William Henry Bragg, Peter Grünberg, Augustin-Jean Fresnel, and Rudolf Mössbauer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Felix Bloch ranks 18. Before him are Carl David Anderson, Faustina Kowalska, Mikhail Sholokhov, Astrid of Sweden, Vasily Grossman, and Maria von Trapp. After him are Arthur Koestler, Marcel Lefebvre, Raymond Aron, Guillermo Stábile, Artem Mikoyan, and Emilio Segrè. Among people deceased in 1983, Felix Bloch ranks 10. Before him are Leopold III of Belgium, Luis Buñuel, Umberto II of Italy, Hergé, Idris of Libya, and Jon Brower Minnoch. After him are Tennessee Williams, Meyer Lansky, Arthur Koestler, Albert Claude, Nikolai Podgorny, and Raymond Aron.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Felix Bloch ranks 43 out of 1,015. Before him are Adelaide of Italy (931), Ursula Andress (1936), Franz Mesmer (1734), Eugen Bleuler (1857), Jacob Bernoulli (1654), and Angelica Kauffman (1741). After him are Albert II, Duke of Austria (1298), Emil Theodor Kocher (1841), Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926), Benjamin Constant (1767), Auguste Piccard (1884), and Johannes Itten (1888).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Switzerland

Among physicists born in Switzerland, Felix Bloch ranks 4. Before him are Charles Édouard Guillaume (1861), Heinrich Rohrer (1933), and K. Alex Müller (1927). After him are Auguste Piccard (1884), Johann Jakob Balmer (1825), Ami Argand (1750), Walter H. Schottky (1886), Raoul Pictet (1846), Walther Ritz (1878), Jakob II Bernoulli (1759), and Alfred Kleiner (1849).

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