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Felix Bloch

1905 - 1983

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Felix Bloch (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 457,583 page views. His biography is available in 70 different languages on Wikipedia. Felix Bloch is the 143rd most popular physicist (down from 116th in 2019), the 52nd most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 44th 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 143 out of 717. Before him are François Englert, Jean-Baptiste Biot, Jacques Charles, Frits Zernike, Hideki Yukawa, and Robert Coleman Richardson. After him are Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Karl Schwarzschild, Hans Bethe, William Shockley, Johann Jakob Balmer, and Ben Roy Mottelson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Felix Bloch ranks 17. Before him are Henry Fonda, Mikhail Sholokhov, Faustina Kowalska, Astrid of Sweden, Carl David Anderson, and Vasily Grossman. After him are Marcel Lefebvre, Arthur Koestler, Artem Mikoyan, Raymond Aron, Raymond Cattell, and Guillermo Stábile. Among people deceased in 1983, Felix Bloch ranks 14. Before him are Idris of Libya, Tennessee Williams, Jon Brower Minnoch, David Niven, Meyer Lansky, and Nikolai Podgorny. After him are Arthur Koestler, Raymond Aron, Albert Claude, Gloria Swanson, George Cukor, and Gerhard Barkhorn.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Felix Bloch ranks 52 out of 876. Before him are Angelica Kauffman (1741), Joan Gamper (1877), Albert II, Duke of Austria (1298), Aga Khan IV (1936), Michel Mayor (1942), and Carlo Maderno (1556). After him are Hans Albert Einstein (1904), Clay Regazzoni (1939), Johann Jakob Balmer (1825), H. R. Giger (1940), Gabriel Cramer (1704), and Friedrich Miescher (1844).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Switzerland

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

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