Claude Bloch, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Claude Bloch

French physicist

Date of Birth: 18-Mar-1923

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 29-Dec-1971

Profession: engineer, physicist, nuclear physicist, theoretical physicist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Claude Bloch

  • Claude Bloch (18 March 1923 – 29 December 1971) was a French theoretical nuclear physicist.
  • He authored over 60 published articles and made significant impact on the fields of quantum field theory, nuclear physics, and the many-body problem. Bloch was born on 18 March 1923 in Paris, France.
  • He was admitted to the École Polytechnique in 1942 and graduated first in his class.
  • He entered the Corps des Mines in 1946.
  • He studied at the Bohr Institute in Copenhagen from 1948-1951 where he worked on the problems in the non-local theory of quantum fields.
  • He worked at the California Institute of Technology in 1952-1953 where he worked on the statistical theory of the nucleus.
  • Upon returning to France in 1953, he joined the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA), where he stayed until his death in 1971.
  • While at the CEA, he directed the theoretical physics department at Centre d'Études Nucléaires de Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette.

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