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Felix Bloch: A brief professional biography

DEC 01, 1965

DOI: 10.1063/1.3047031

L. I. Schiff
R. Hofstadter

October 23, 1965, the sixtieth birthday of Felix Bloch, has marked an appropriate occasion for review of his accomplishments as one of the great physicists of this generation.

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More about the Authors

L. I. Schiff. Stanford University.

R. Hofstadter. Stanford University.

This Content Appeared In
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Volume 18, Number 12

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