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unusual facts about Felix Bloch


Felix Bloch

At Stanford, he was the advisor of Carson D. Jeffries, who became a professor of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley.


Egon Bretscher

He used to joke that his main contribution to physics occurred in the summer of 1930, when he was climbing in the Bergel region near Engadin with another student, Felix Bloch, in the Swiss Alps.

LeConte Hall

The physicists and Oppenheimer's students, including Hans Bethe, John Van Vleck, Felix Bloch, and others, worked in the top floor of LeConte Hall and spent a month analyzing data.


see also

Bloch's theorem

For the theorem named after Felix Bloch on wave functions of a particle in a periodic potential, see Bloch wave.