Felix Bloch’s birthday
23
October 2020
Felix Bloch (23.10.1905 – 10.09.1983) was a Swiss physicist who won a Nobel Prize in his field. During the Second World War, Bloch worked for the Los Alamos atomic project and later joined a Harvard University radar project. After the war, Bloch worked in the field of nuclear induction and nuclear magnetic resonance, which were the key principles of nuclear magnetic tomography. In 1952, Felix Bloch and Edward Mills Purcell were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for the development of new methods of precise nuclear magnetic measurements and associated discoveries. The following physical phenomena bear his name: the Bethe-Bloch Formula, Bloch Equations, Bloch Walls, the Bloch Function and the Bloch Wave.