Felix Bloch

(1905–1983) Physicist

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Felix Bloch was a physicist, best known for Die elektronentheorie der metalle.

Quick Facts About Felix Bloch

Born: October 23, 1905
Died: September 10, 1983
Profession: Physicist
Notable works: Die elektronentheorie der metalle

About Felix Bloch

Felix Bloch 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."

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Felix Bloch

Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we…

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About

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It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities of life.

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Give

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But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to…

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Advise

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Thanking you once more, I want to wish you the best of luck for your future life and to conclude by saying…

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Best

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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.

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Cherished

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I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later…

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Hope

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In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.

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Banquet

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It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.

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Generally

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