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. 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, 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.
1932 - Present
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 137
1774 - 1862
HPI: 65.70
Rank: 138
1763 - 1823
HPI: 65.64
Rank: 139
1888 - 1966
HPI: 65.61
Rank: 140
1907 - 1981
HPI: 65.56
Rank: 141
1937 - 2013
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 142
1905 - 1983
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 143
1742 - 1799
HPI: 65.51
Rank: 144
1873 - 1916
HPI: 65.43
Rank: 145
1906 - 2005
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 146
1910 - 1989
HPI: 65.24
Rank: 147
1825 - 1898
HPI: 65.09
Rank: 148
1926 - 2022
HPI: 64.97
Rank: 149
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.
1905 - 1982
HPI: 71.52
Rank: 11
1905 - 1984
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 12
1905 - 1938
HPI: 69.10
Rank: 13
1905 - 1935
HPI: 68.98
Rank: 14
1905 - 1991
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 15
1905 - 1964
HPI: 67.06
Rank: 16
1905 - 1983
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 17
1905 - 1991
HPI: 65.52
Rank: 18
1905 - 1983
HPI: 65.01
Rank: 19
1905 - 1970
HPI: 64.81
Rank: 20
1905 - 1983
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 21
1905 - 1998
HPI: 64.12
Rank: 22
1905 - 1966
HPI: 63.59
Rank: 23
1889 - 1983
HPI: 68.81
Rank: 8
1911 - 1983
HPI: 67.41
Rank: 9
1941 - 1983
HPI: 66.99
Rank: 10
1910 - 1983
HPI: 66.47
Rank: 11
1902 - 1983
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 12
1903 - 1983
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 13
1905 - 1983
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 14
1905 - 1983
HPI: 65.01
Rank: 15
1905 - 1983
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 16
1899 - 1983
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 17
1899 - 1983
HPI: 64.16
Rank: 18
1899 - 1983
HPI: 64.13
Rank: 19
1919 - 1983
HPI: 64.10
Rank: 20
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).
1741 - 1807
HPI: 66.27
Rank: 46
1877 - 1930
HPI: 66.25
Rank: 47
1298 - 1358
HPI: 66.24
Rank: 48
1936 - Present
HPI: 65.78
Rank: 49
1942 - Present
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 50
1556 - 1629
HPI: 65.57
Rank: 51
1905 - 1983
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 52
1904 - 1973
HPI: 65.35
Rank: 53
1939 - 2006
HPI: 65.24
Rank: 54
1825 - 1898
HPI: 65.09
Rank: 55
1940 - 2014
HPI: 65.07
Rank: 56
1704 - 1752
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 57
1844 - 1895
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 58
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).
1861 - 1938
HPI: 68.46
Rank: 1
1884 - 1962
HPI: 66.79
Rank: 2
1933 - 2013
HPI: 66.73
Rank: 3
1905 - 1983
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 4
1825 - 1898
HPI: 65.09
Rank: 5
1927 - 2023
HPI: 62.79
Rank: 6
1750 - 1803
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 7
1886 - 1976
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 8
1878 - 1909
HPI: 52.37
Rank: 9
1846 - 1929
HPI: 51.78
Rank: 10
1759 - 1789
HPI: 51.01
Rank: 11
1849 - 1916
HPI: 49.51
Rank: 12