Swiss-born American physicist who shared (with E.M. Purcell) the Nobel
Prize for Physics in 1952 for developing the nuclear magnetic resonance
method of measuring the magnetic field of atomic nuclei.
Bloch returned to Stanford in 1945 to develop, with physicists W.W. Hansen and M.E. Packard, the principle of nuclear magnetic resonance, which helped establish the relationship between nuclear magnetic fields and the crystalline and magnetic properties of various materials. It later became useful in determining the composition and structure of molecules. Nuclear magnetic resonance techniques have become increasingly important in diagnostic medicine.
Bloch was the first director general of the European Organization for
Nuclear Research (1954-55; CERN).
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