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Home About What's New ... Widget Felix Bloch, Nuclear Induction, and Bloch Equations Resources with Additional Information Stressing "the importance both of demonstrating the neutron's magnetic moment and of determining its magnitude", Felix Bloch began his research on neutron physics at Stanford [University] in early 1936. "Using mostly X-ray and microwave equipment from the physics labs, he and Norris Bradbury ... built [a neutron] source ... . (Bloch later pointed out that this equipment was more important as a source of inspiration than of neutrons.) Eventually, he extended his use of neutron sources to studies of neutron polarisation, a link to his earlier research in ferromagnetism.
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Stanford University Archives These studies served as a basis for a collaborative effort with Luis Alvarez ... . In the fall of 1938, Alvarez and Bloch began working with Berkeley's 37" cyclotron to determine the magnetic moment of the neutron. ... By the summer of 1939 ... they were able to publish very precise results. This experiment was, in fact, one of the first important uses of Ernest Lawrence's cyclotron. .. In 1942, [J. Robert] Oppenheimer asked Bloch to work on the Manhattan Project. Bloch, collaborating with [Hans] Bethe | |
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