biography
pronunciation:
[blokh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1905–83)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Zürich, Switzerland. He made pioneering contributions to studies of superconductivity and magnetism while affiliated with several European universities. After Hitler's regime caused his emigration to the USA (1934), he went to Stanford (1934–41), investigated uranium isotopes for the Manhattan Project (1941–4), performed counter-radar research for Harvard (1944–5), then returned to Stanford (1945–71), and was appointed the first director-general of the European Commission for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva (1954–5). He shared the 1952 Nobel Prize for Physics (with E M Purcell) for developing nuclear magnetic resonance, a technique that revolutionized analytical chemistry and medical diagnostics. Several concepts and features dealing with superconductivity have been named after Bloch. |
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