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In a delightful article in PHYSICS TODAY (December 1976 page 23) Bloch has recounted the circumstances in which he came to work on the electron theory of metals in Leipzig as Heisenberg's first graduate student.
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Felix Bloch. Physics Today 29 (12), 23–27 (1976);...
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Heisenberg and the early days of quantum mechanics. Recollections of the days, 50 years ago, when a handful of students in the “entirely useless” field of physics heard of a strange new mechanics invented by Maurice de Broglie, Werner Heisenberg and Erwin Schrödinger. Felix Bloch.
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Felix Bloch (23 October 1905 – 10 September 1983) was a Swiss-American physicist and Nobel physics laureate who worked mainly in the U.S. He and Edward Mills Purcell were awarded the 1952 Nobel Prize for Physics for "their development of new ways and methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements."
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For a delightful rst-hand account of the origins of the Schrödinger equation see the article by Felix Bloch in Physics Today, December 1976.
