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Mar 18, 1923 Paris, Île de France, France Died on 29 Dec 1971 (aged 48)
French physicist
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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.
