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." The Nobel Prize in Physics 1952, announced November 6, 1952. Felix Bloch and E. M. Purcell, “for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith”. Felix Bloch: born 1905, Zurich, Switzerland. E. M. Purcell: born 1912, Taylorville, IL, USA. Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).