Bloch, Felix
Bloch, Felix (1905-1983), a Swiss-American physicist. He shared the 1952 Nobel Prize for physics with Edward M. Purcell. Bloch received the award for developing a method for measuring the magnetic fields of atomic nuclei.
Bloch was born in Zurich, Switzerland. He received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Leipzig in 1928. During 1929-34, he held several teaching positions in Europe. In 1934 he emigrated to the United States. Bloch became a United States citizen in 1939. He was a professor of physics at Stanford University, 1939-71. During World War II, he worked on the Manhattan Project, the research program that developed the atomic bomb.