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Felix Bloch ( October 23 , 1905 – September 10 , 1983 ) was a Swiss born Physicist , working mainly in the USA . Born in Zürich , Switzerland . He was educated there and at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule , also in Zürich. Initially studying engineering he soon changed to Physics . Graduating in 1927 he continued his physics studies at the University Of Leipzig , gaining his doctorate in 1928 . He remained in German academia, studying with Werner Heisenberg , Wolfgang Pauli , Niels Bohr and Enrico Fermi . In 1933 he left Germany , emigrating to work at Stanford University in 1934 . In 1939 , he became a Naturalized Citizen of the United States . During WW II he worked on Atomic Energy at Los Alamos National Laboratory , before resigning to join the Radar project at Harvard University . Post-war he concentrated on investigations into Nuclear Induction and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance , which are the underlying principles of MRI . He and Edward Mills Purcell were awarded the 1952 Nobel Prize In Physics for "their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements." In 1954 – 1955 , he served for one unsatisfactory year as the first Director-General of CERN . In 1961 , he was made Max Stein Professor of Physics at Stanford University. EXTERNAL LINKS
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