Editing Felix Bloch (section)

===Early life, education, and family===
Bloch was born in [[Zürich]], Switzerland to [[Jewish]]<ref>{{cite book|title=The Quantum Exodus|author=Fraser, Gordon|chapter=Chapter 7|page=182|year=2012|publisher=Oxford University Press|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xwGhmwYyDLQC&pg=PA182|isbn=978-0-19-959215-9}}</ref> parents Gustav and Agnes Bloch. Gustav Bloch, his father, was financially unable to attend university and worked as a wholesale grain dealer in Zürich.<ref name=HofstadterBioMemoir>{{Cite book|url=https://www.nap.edu/read/4547/chapter/3|title=Read "Biographical Memoirs: V.64" at NAP.edu|chapter=3|last=Hofstadter|first= Richard|year=1994|doi=10.17226/4547|isbn=978-0-309-04978-8|author-link=Richard Hofstadter|language=en}}</ref> Gustav moved to Zürich from [[Moravia]] in 1890 to become a Swiss citizen. Their first child was a girl born in 1902 while Felix was born three years later.<ref name=HofstadterBioMemoir />

Bloch entered public elementary school at the age of six and is said to have been teased, in part because he "spoke Swiss German with a somewhat different accent than most members of the class".<ref name=HofstadterBioMemoir /> He received support from his older sister during much of this time, but she died at the age of twelve, devastating Felix, who is said to have lived a "depressed and isolated life" in the following years.<ref name=HofstadterBioMemoir /> Bloch learned to play the piano by the age of eight and was drawn to arithmetic for its "clarity and beauty".<ref name=HofstadterBioMemoir /> Bloch graduated from elementary school at twelve and enrolled in the Cantonal Gymnasium in Zürich for secondary school in 1918. He was placed on a six-year curriculum here to prepare him for university. He continued his curriculum through 1924, even through his study of engineering and physics in other schools, though it was limited to mathematics and languages after the first three years. After these first three years at the Gymnasium, at age fifteen Bloch began to study at the [[ETH Zürich|Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule]] (ETHZ), also in Zürich. Although he initially studied engineering he soon changed to physics. During this time he attended lectures and seminars given by [[Peter Debye]] and [[Hermann Weyl]] at ETH Zürich and [[Erwin Schrödinger]] at the neighboring [[University of Zürich]]. A fellow student in these seminars was [[John von Neumann]]. 

Bloch graduated in 1927, and was encouraged by Debye to go to [[University of Leipzig|Leipzig]] to study with [[Werner Heisenberg]].<ref name="Stanford-physics-memorial">{{cite web |title=Memorial Resolution: Felix Bloch (1905 - 1983) |last1=Hofstadter |first1=Robert |last2=Chodorow |first2=Marvin |last3=Schawlow |first3=Arthur |last4=Walecka |first4=Dirk |url=https://physics.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/BlochF.pdf |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20170311100004/https://physics.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/BlochF.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=11 March 2017 |access-date=11 November 2017 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> Bloch became Heisenberg's first graduate student, and gained his doctorate in 1928.<ref name="Stanford-physics-memorial"/> His doctoral thesis established the [[quantum mechanics|quantum theory of solids]], using waves to describe [[electron]]s in periodic lattices.

On March 14, 1940, Bloch married Lore Clara Misch (1911–1996), a fellow physicist working on [[X-ray crystallography]], whom he had met at an [[American Physical Society]] meeting.<ref name="royalsoced1">[http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf Former Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783 – 2002] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919152306/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf |date=19 September 2015 }}. royalsoced.org.uk</ref> They had four children, twins George Jacob Bloch and Daniel Arthur Bloch (born January 15, 1941), son Frank Samuel Bloch (born January 16, 1945), and daughter Ruth Hedy Bloch (born September 15, 1949).<ref name="Stanford-physics-memorial"/><ref>{{Cite web | url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt3580367x/admin/ |title = Guide to the Felix Bloch Papers}}</ref>