Quo Fuit places 4 dated presences for Felix Bloch across 3 places, from 1905 to 1983.
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Felix Bloch (23 October 1905 – 10 September 1983) was a Swiss–American theoretical physicist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics with Edward Mills Purcell "for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith."Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Felix Bloch was documented, and when
23 October 1905exact date
Zurichattested“Felix Bloch was born on 23 October 1905 in Zurich, Switzerland, to Jewish parents, Gustav Bloch and Agnes Mayer.”source: Wikipedia: Felix Bloch
1927year
University of Leipzigattested“Bloch graduated in 1927, and was encouraged by Debye to go to the University of Leipzig to study under Werner Heisenberg.”source: Wikipedia: Felix Bloch
1961year
Stanford Universityattested“After leaving CERN, Bloch returned to Stanford University, where in 1961 he was made Max Stein Professor of Physics.”source: Wikipedia: Felix Bloch
10 September 1983exact date
Zurichattested“Bloch died on 10 September 1983 in Zurich at the age of 77.”source: Wikipedia: Felix Bloch
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1918year
Zurichmentioned“Bloch graduated from elementary school at twelve and enrolled in the Cantonal Gymnasium in Zurich for secondary school in 1918.”source: Wikipedia: Felix Bloch
1932year
Leipzigmentioned“In 1932, Bloch returned to Leipzig to assume a position as Privatdozent (lecturer).”source: Wikipedia: Felix Bloch
1933year
Zurichmentioned“In 1933, immediately after Adolf Hitler came to power, Bloch left Germany out of fear of anti-Jewish persecution, returning to Zurich before traveling to Paris to lecture at the Institut Henri Poincaré.”source: Wikipedia: Felix Bloch
1933year
Institut Henri Poincarémentioned“In 1933, immediately after Adolf Hitler came to power, Bloch left Germany out of fear of anti-Jewish persecution, returning to Zurich before traveling to Paris to lecture at the Institut Henri Poincaré.”source: Wikipedia: Felix Bloch
1933year
Germanymentioned“In 1933, immediately after Adolf Hitler came to power, Bloch left Germany out of fear of anti-Jewish persecution, returning to Zurich before traveling to Paris to lecture at the Institut Henri Poincaré.”source: Wikipedia: Felix Bloch
1933year
Parismentioned“In 1933, immediately after Adolf Hitler came to power, Bloch left Germany out of fear of anti-Jewish persecution, returning to Zurich before traveling to Paris to lecture at the Institut Henri Poincaré.”source: Wikipedia: Felix Bloch
1938year
University of California, Berkeleymentioned“In the fall of 1938, Bloch began working with the 37 inch cyclotron at the University of California, Berkeley, to determine the magnetic moment of the neutron.”source: Wikipedia: Felix Bloch
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