Bloch's family donated his Nobel Prize medal to CERN
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Felix Bloch
Felix Bloch was a Swiss–American theoretical 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."
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science · Swiss-American physicist (1905–1983) · physicist · university teacher · nuclear physicist · also Felix Bloch, Bloch, F. Bloch
Born 23 October 1905 · Died 10 September 1983 · Q123022
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2012· 1 entry
Published “Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,801 times.
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2008· 1 entry
Published “Many-body physics with ultracold gases” in Reviews of Modern Physics — cited 7,113 times.
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1988· 1 entry
Published “The american rheumatism association 1987 revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis” in Arthritis & Rheumatism — cited 15,811 times.
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1983· 2 entries
Died 1983-09-10.
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Bloch died on 10 September 1983 in Zurich at the age of 77.
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1961· 1 entry
Was made Max Stein Professor of Physics
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1959· 1 entry
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Grenoble (1959).
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1954· 2 entries
Career landmark: Director General of CERN (1954–1955).
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Professor Bloch became CERN's first director-general, at the time when construction was getting under way on the present Meyrin site and plans for the first machines were being drawn up
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1952· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1952).
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For his work on nuclear magnetic induction
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1946· 1 entry
Proposed the Bloch equations, which determine the time evolution of nuclear magnetization
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1941· 1 entry
They had four children, twins George Jacob Bloch and Daniel Arthur Bloch (born 15 January 1941), son Frank Samuel Bloch (born 16 January 1945), and daughter Ruth Hedy Bloch (born 15 September 1949).
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1934· 1 entry
The chairman of the Physics Department of Stanford University invited Bloch to join the faculty
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1933· 1 entry
Immediately after Adolf Hitler came to power, Bloch left Germany out of fear of anti-Jewish persecution, returning to Zurich before traveling to Paris to lecture at the Institut Henri Poincaré
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1932· 1 entry
Bloch returned to Leipzig to assume a position as Privatdozent (lecturer)
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1927· 1 entry
And was encouraged by Debye to go to the University of Leipzig to study under Werner Heisenberg
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1905· 1 entry
Born 1905-10-23.
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