The Nobel Prize in Physics 1952
Awarded on: 1952-11-06
"for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith"
Affiliations:
- Stanford University – Stanford, CA, USA
Felix Bloch
Born: 1905-10-23 in Zurich, Switzerland
Gender: male
Field: Swiss-American physicist (1905–1983)
Biography
Felix Bloch was a Swiss-American physicist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics with Edward Mills Purcell "for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith". Bloch made fundamental theoretical contributions to the understanding of ferromagnetism and electron behavior in crystal lattices. He is also considered one of the developers of nuclear magnetic resonance.