1905 - 1983
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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Felix Bloch has received more than 264,794 page views. His biography is available in 70 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2019). Felix Bloch is the 116th most popular physicist (up from 139th in 2019), the 44th most popular biography from Switzerland 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, Felix Bloch ranks 116 out of 721. Before him are François Arago, John Bardeen, Arno Allan Penzias, Igor Tamm, Kip Thorne, and Auguste Piccard. After him are Henry Moseley, Simon van der Meer, Karl Schwarzschild, Thomas Young, Walther Bothe, and Josiah Willard Gibbs.
1786 - 1853
HPI: 74.69
Rank: 110
1908 - 1991
HPI: 74.67
Rank: 111
1933 - Present
HPI: 74.62
Rank: 112
1895 - 1971
HPI: 74.50
Rank: 113
1940 - Present
HPI: 74.49
Rank: 114
1884 - 1962
HPI: 74.47
Rank: 115
1905 - 1983
HPI: 74.46
Rank: 116
1887 - 1915
HPI: 74.41
Rank: 117
1925 - 2011
HPI: 74.41
Rank: 118
1873 - 1916
HPI: 74.35
Rank: 119
1773 - 1829
HPI: 74.29
Rank: 120
1891 - 1957
HPI: 74.28
Rank: 121
1839 - 1903
HPI: 74.07
Rank: 122
Among people born in 1905, Felix Bloch ranks 16. Before him are Viktor Frankl, Dag Hammarskjöld, Faustina Kowalska, Astrid of Sweden, Mikhail Sholokhov, and Carl David Anderson. After him are Vasily Grossman, Arthur Koestler, Raymond Cattell, Marcel Lefebvre, Raymond Aron, and Fred Trump. Among people deceased in 1983, Felix Bloch ranks 10. Before him are Luis Buñuel, Leopold III of Belgium, Umberto II of Italy, Hergé, Idris of Libya, and Tennessee Williams. After him are Buckminster Fuller, David Niven, Arthur Koestler, Raymond Aron, Nikolai Podgorny, and Meyer Lansky.
1905 - 1997
HPI: 80.15
Rank: 10
1905 - 1961
HPI: 79.51
Rank: 11
1905 - 1938
HPI: 76.78
Rank: 12
1905 - 1935
HPI: 76.37
Rank: 13
1905 - 1984
HPI: 76.10
Rank: 14
1905 - 1991
HPI: 75.50
Rank: 15
1905 - 1983
HPI: 74.46
Rank: 16
1905 - 1964
HPI: 74.30
Rank: 17
1905 - 1983
HPI: 73.99
Rank: 18
1905 - 1998
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 19
1905 - 1991
HPI: 73.56
Rank: 20
1905 - 1983
HPI: 73.52
Rank: 21
1905 - 1999
HPI: 72.88
Rank: 22
1900 - 1983
HPI: 80.29
Rank: 4
1901 - 1983
HPI: 79.19
Rank: 5
1904 - 1983
HPI: 78.22
Rank: 6
1907 - 1983
HPI: 77.32
Rank: 7
1889 - 1983
HPI: 76.13
Rank: 8
1911 - 1983
HPI: 74.65
Rank: 9
1905 - 1983
HPI: 74.46
Rank: 10
1895 - 1983
HPI: 74.10
Rank: 11
1910 - 1983
HPI: 74.00
Rank: 12
1905 - 1983
HPI: 73.99
Rank: 13
1905 - 1983
HPI: 73.52
Rank: 14
1903 - 1983
HPI: 73.07
Rank: 15
1902 - 1983
HPI: 72.83
Rank: 16
Among people born in Switzerland, Felix Bloch ranks 44 out of 749. Before him are Alexandre Yersin (1863), Ursula Andress (1936), Henry Fuseli (1741), Auguste Piccard (1884), Hermann Rorschach (1884), and Adelaide of Italy (931). After him are Angelica Kauffman (1741), Johannes Itten (1888), Aga Khan IV (1936), Albert II, Duke of Austria (1298), Joan Gamper (1877), and Robert Walser (1878).
1863 - 1943
HPI: 74.63
Rank: 38
1936 - Present
HPI: 74.55
Rank: 39
1741 - 1825
HPI: 74.52
Rank: 40
1884 - 1962
HPI: 74.47
Rank: 41
1884 - 1922
HPI: 74.47
Rank: 42
931 - 999
HPI: 74.46
Rank: 43
1905 - 1983
HPI: 74.46
Rank: 44
1741 - 1807
HPI: 74.24
Rank: 45
1888 - 1967
HPI: 74.21
Rank: 46
1936 - Present
HPI: 74.15
Rank: 47
1298 - 1358
HPI: 74.05
Rank: 48
1877 - 1930
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 49
1878 - 1956
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 50
Among physicists born in Switzerland, Felix Bloch ranks 4. Before him are Charles Édouard Guillaume (1861), Johann Jakob Balmer (1825), and Auguste Piccard (1884). After him are Heinrich Rohrer (1933), K. Alex Müller (1927), Walter H. Schottky (1886), Ami Argand (1750), Walther Ritz (1878), Raoul Pictet (1846), and Paul Scherrer (1890).
1861 - 1938
HPI: 76.40
Rank: 1
1825 - 1898
HPI: 75.17
Rank: 2
1884 - 1962
HPI: 74.47
Rank: 3
1905 - 1983
HPI: 74.46
Rank: 4
1933 - 2013
HPI: 72.67
Rank: 5
1927 - Present
HPI: 71.95
Rank: 6
1886 - 1976
HPI: 66.50
Rank: 7
1750 - 1803
HPI: 65.57
Rank: 8
1878 - 1909
HPI: 63.20
Rank: 9
1846 - 1929
HPI: 63.19
Rank: 10
1890 - 1969
HPI: 57.61
Rank: 11