Felix Bloch made fundamental theoretical contributions to the understanding of ferromagnetism and electron behavior in crystal lattices.
18 Facts About Felix Bloch
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Felix Bloch is considered one of the developers of nuclear magnetic resonance.
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Felix Bloch entered public elementary school at the age of six and is said to have been teased, in part because he "spoke Swiss German with a somewhat different accent than most members of the class".
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Felix Bloch received support from his older sister during much of this time, but she died at the age of twelve, devastating Felix, who is said to have lived a "depressed and isolated life" in the following years.
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Felix Bloch learned to play the piano by the age of eight and was drawn to arithmetic for its "clarity and beauty".
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Felix Bloch graduated from elementary school at twelve and enrolled in the Cantonal Gymnasium in Zurich for secondary school in 1918.
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Felix Bloch was placed on a six-year curriculum here to prepare him for University.
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Felix Bloch continued his curriculum through 1924, even through his study of engineering and physics in other schools, though it was limited to mathematics and languages after the first three years.
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Felix Bloch graduated in 1927, and was encouraged by Debye to go to Leipzig to study with Werner Heisenberg.
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Felix Bloch became Heisenberg's first graduate student, and gained his doctorate in 1928.
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On March 14,1940, Felix Bloch married Lore Clara Misch, a fellow physicist working on X-ray crystallography, whom he had met at an American Physical Society meeting.
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In 1932, Felix Bloch returned to Leipzig to assume a position as "Privatdozent".
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In 1934, the chairman of Stanford Physics invited Felix Bloch to join the faculty.
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Felix Bloch accepted the offer and emigrated to the United States.
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Felix Bloch went on to become the first professor for theoretical physics at Stanford.
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Felix Bloch was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1948.
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When CERN was being set up in the early 1950s, its founders were searching for someone of stature and international prestige to head the fledgling international laboratory, and in 1954 Professor Felix 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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Felix Bloch was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.