Felix Bloch (1905 - 1983)

Born 23 Oct 1905 in Zürich, Switzerland

Ancestors

Husband of Leonore Gertrud Klara Misch — married 14 Mar 1940 in Las Vegas, Clark, Nevada, United States

Died 10 Sep 1983 at age 77 in Zürich, Switzerland

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Biography

Felix Bloch is Notable.

Felix Bloch was awarded the Nobel Prize.

Felix was born in 1905. He was a Swiss-American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate. 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."

He studied at the Federal Institute of Technology (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule) in Zurich. He attended, among others, courses given by Debye, Scherrer, Weyl, as well as Schrödinger, who taught at the same time at the University of Zurich and through whom he became acquainted, toward the end of this period, with the new wave mechanics.

After Schrödinger left Zurich in the fall of 1927 he continued his studies with Heisenberg at the University of Leipzig, where he received his degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the summer of 1928 with a dissertation dealing with the quantum mechanics of electrons in crystals and developing the theory of metallic conduction.

Various assistantships and fellowships, held in the following years, gave him the opportunity to work with Pauli, Kramers, Heisenberg, Bohr, and Fermi, and to further theoretical studies of the solid state as well as of the stopping power of charged particles.

He accepted a position at Stanford University and in 1939 carried out experiments in collaboration with L.W. Alvarez at the Berkeley cyclotron, in which the magnetic moment of the neutron was determined with an accuracy of about one percent.

In 1954, Bloch took a leave of absence to serve for one year as the first Director General of CERN in Geneva.

He became a naturalized US citizen in 1936.^[1]

Felix married Lore Misch in 1940.^[2]

He passed away in 1983.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ "California County Naturalizations, 1831-1985," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPZT-BPKM : 29 August 2019), Felix Bloch, 1936; citing Naturalization, San Mateo, California, United States, {record.getField('SOURCE_ENTRY_NBR')}, Alameda County Superior Court of California, Oakland..
2. ↑ "Nevada County Marriages, 1862-1993," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QL4G-CL5X : 22 July 2021), Felix Bloch and Lore C Misch, 14 Mar 1940; citing Marriage, Clark, Nevada, United States, Nevada State Museum and Historical Society, Las Vegas; FHL microfilm 005241853.
3. ↑ "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V9Y8-H48 : 11 January 2021), Felix Bloch, Sep 1983; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).

• 1940 US Census

• Wikipedia:Felix Bloch

• Wikidata: Item Q123022, en:Wikipedia

• https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1952/bloch/biographical/

• National Archives at St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; Wwii Draft Registration Cards For California, 10/16/1940-03/31/1947; Record Group: Records of the Selective Service System, 147; Box: 166

• Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center; Spiegel Grove, Fremont, Ohio; Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center Ohio Obituary Index, 1830s to 2011