Felix Bloch
Former general manager of CERN
Felix Bloch was a Swiss-American physicist and Nobel physics laureate who worked mainly in the U.S. He and Edward Mills Purcell were awarded the 1952 Nobel Prize for Physics for "their development of new ways and methods for nuclear magnetic... Wikipedia
Born: October 23, 1905, Zürich, Switzerland
Died: September 10, 1983 (age 77 years), Zürich, Switzerland
Children: Ruth H. Bloch
Education: Leipzig University (1927–1928) and ETH Zürich (1927)
Grandchild: Aaron Alexander-bloch
Award: Nobel Prize in Physics (1952)
Spouse: Clara Gertrud Leonore Misch (m. 1940)