Bloch
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Bloch is a surname.
Bloch may refer to:
- Jewish (Ashkenazic): regional name for someone in Eastern Europe originating from Italy or France, from Polish "Włoch" meaning "Italian" (originally "stranger / of foreign stock").
- German and Swedish: Variant of Block
- Danish: from Blok, hence a nickname for a large lumpish person, or from German "Block"
Bloch may refer to:
- Albert BlochAlbert BlochAlbert Bloch was an American Modernist artist and the only American artist associated with Der Blaue Reiter , a group of early 20th-century European modernists....
(1882-1961), American painter - Alfred BlochAlfred BlochAlfred Bloch, also known as Jean Bloch, was a French football player.He was affiliated with the Racing Club de France, in Paris.Bloch won a silver medal playing soccer for France in the 1900 Olympics. Bloch was Jewish....
, French footballer - André Bloch (mathematician)André Bloch (mathematician)André Bloch was a Jewish-French mathematician who is best remembered for a result called Bloch's theorem. Bloch was institutionalized in a mental asylum for thirty-one years of his life, during which all of his mathematical output was produced.- Early life :Bloch was born in 1893 in Besançon,...
(1893-1948), French mathematician - Andy BlochAndy BlochAndrew Elliot Bloch is a professional poker player. He holds two electrical engineering degrees from MIT and a JD from Harvard Law School.-Poker:...
(born 1969), American poker player - Arthur BlochArthur BlochArthur Bloch is an American writer, author of the Murphy's Law books. He has also written a self-help satire called Healing Yourself with Wishful Thinking. Since 1986 he has been the producer/director of the Thinking Allowed PBS television series.The proper title of the book is Murphy's Law, and...
(born 1948), American writer - Augustyn BlochAugustyn BlochAugustyn Bloch was a Polish composer and organist, student of Feliks Rączkowski and Tadeusz Szeligowski...
(1929-2006), Polish composer and organist - Avraham Yitzchak BlochAvraham Yitzchak BlochRabbi Avraham Yitzchak Bloch was the Chief Rabbi and Rosh Yeshiva of the Telz Yeshiva in Lithuania, and one of the greatest pre-Holocaust Rabbinic figures....
(1891-1941), Lithuanian rabbi - Bernard BlochBernard Bloch----Bernard Bloch, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., was an American linguist.He is one of the post-Bloomfieldian linguists.He taught at Brown University and Yale University.- Literary works :...
(1907-1965), American linguist - Bernard Bloch (actor)Bernard Bloch (actor)Bernard Bloch is a French actor.- Filmography :* 1972 : Albert Einstein : Un membre de l'académie d'Olympia* 1974 : Histoire de Paul : L'harmonica* 1980 : Fernand : Fernand...
, French actor - Carl Heinrich BlochCarl Heinrich BlochCarl Heinrich Bloch was a Danish painter.He was born in Copenhagen and studied with Wilhelm Marstrand at the Royal Danish Academy of Art there. Bloch's parents wanted their son to enter a respectable profession - an officer in the Navy. This, however, was not what Carl wanted...
, (1834-1890), Danish painter - Claude C. BlochClaude C. BlochAdmiral Claude Charles Bloch was a United States Navy admiral who served as Commander, Battle Force, U.S. Fleet from 1937–1938; and Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet from 1938-1940.-Biography:...
(1878-1967), American naval admiral - Débora BlochDébora BlochDébora Bloch is a Brazilian actress.She is the daughter of actor Jonas Bloch, and is descendant of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants .-External links:...
(born 1963), Brazilian actress - Denise BlochDenise BlochDenise Madeleine Bloch was a French secret agent working with the British Special Operations Executive in World War II.- Early life :...
(died 1945), French Resistance member - Eduard BlochEduard BlochDr. Eduard Bloch was a Jewish-Austrian doctor practicing in Linz . Until 1907 Bloch was the doctor of Adolf Hitler's family...
(1872-1945), Austrian physician and family doctor of Adolf Hitler from 1903 to 1907 - Emanuel Hirsch BlochEmanuel Hirsch BlochEmanuel Hirsch Bloch was an American attorney known for defending clients associated with left-wing and Communist causes. He and Marshall Perlin defended Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.-Biography:...
(1902-1954), American lawyer - Ernest BlochErnest BlochErnest Bloch was a Swiss-born American composer.-Life:Bloch was born in Geneva and began playing the violin at age 9. He began composing soon afterwards. He studied music at the conservatory in Brussels, where his teachers included the celebrated Belgian violinist Eugène Ysaÿe...
(1880-1959), American composer - Ernst BlochErnst BlochErnst Bloch was a German Marxist philosopher.Bloch was influenced by both Hegel and Marx and, as he always confessed, by novelist Karl May. He was also interested in music and art . He established friendships with Georg Lukács, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill and Theodor W. Adorno...
(1885-1977), German philosopher - Erich BlochErich BlochErich Bloch is a German-born American electrical engineer and administrator. He served as director of National Science Foundation from 1984 to 1990....
(born 1925), American electrical engineer and administrator - Felix BlochFelix BlochFelix Bloch was a Swiss physicist, working mainly in the U.S.-Life and work:Bloch was born in Zürich, Switzerland to Jewish parents Gustav and Agnes Bloch. He was educated there and at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, also in Zürich. Initially studying engineering he soon changed to physics...
(1905-1983), Swiss physicist - Felix Bloch (diplomatic officer)Felix Bloch (diplomatic officer)Felix Bloch is a former director of European and Canadian Affairs in the US Department of State. He is known in connection with Robert Hanssen espionage case. Hanssen was a Soviet spy who reported to his KGB handlers about the ongoing FBI investigations of Felix Bloch and Reino Gikman to save both...
(born 1935), American diplomat accused of spying for the Soviets - Hans Glad BlochHans Glad BlochHans Glad Bloch was a 19th-century Norwegian military officer and government official. Born in Sør-Odal, he reached the rank of General in 1850. His career included a period as commander of the Norwegian Military Academy and commanding positions at the fortresses of Bergenhus and Fredriksten...
(1791-1865), Norwegian politician - Heinz P. BlochHeinz P. BlochHeinz P. Bloch is an American mechanical engineer, author and consultant - born and raised in Germany. He has extensive experience in machine reliability and is widely regarded as an authority on the subject. He had 24 years of service with Exxon as a machinery specialist before embarking on a...
, American mechanical engineer - Henry W. BlochHenry W. BlochHenry Wollman Bloch is the co-founder and the chairman emeritus of H&R Block.Henry and his brother, Richard Bloch, founded H&R Block in 1955 in Kansas City, Missouri.-Personal life:Bloch was born in Kansas City...
(born 1922), American businessman - Herbert BlochHerbert BlochHerbert Bloch was professor emeritus of Classics at Harvard and a renowned authority on Greek historiography, Roman epigraphy and archaeology, medieval monasticism, and the transmission of classical culture and literature....
(1911-2006), German archaeologist and epigrapher - Herbert J. BlochHerbert J. BlochHerbert J. Bloch , who emigrated from Europe to New York City in 1936, was a philatelist and stamp dealer who became recognized as a leading expert on authentication of rare European postage stamps.-Collecting interests:...
(1907-1987), philatelist of New York CityNew York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and... - Isaac BlochIsaac BlochIsaac Bloch served as Chief Rabbi in Nancy, France. He contributed to the Jewish Encyclopedia, having written 16 articles.Bloch was a native of Alsace. He served as a chaplain during the siege of Paris. For most of the 1880s he served as a rabbi in Algeria. He was appointed chief rabbi of Nancy...
, French rabbi - Ivan Bloch (1836-1902), Polish banker and warfare expert
- Iwan BlochIwan BlochIwan Bloch was a Berlin dermatologist.Born in Delmenhorst, Germany, he is often called the first sexologist. He discovered the Marquis de Sade's manuscript of The 120 Days of Sodom, which had been believed to be lost, and published it under the pseudonym Eugène Dühren in 1904...
(1872-1922), Berlin dermatologist - Jean-Richard BlochJean-Richard BlochJean-Richard Bloch was a French writer .He was a member of the French Communist Party and worked with Louis Aragon in the evening daily Ce soir.- Literary works :...
(1884-1947), French writer - Josef Samuel BlochJosef Samuel BlochJoseph Samuel Bloch, Josef Samuel Bloch was an Austrian rabbi and deputy.-Biography:Bloch's parents, who were poor, destined him for the rabbinical career, and he devoted himself to the exclusive study of the Talmud...
(1850-1923), Austrian rabbi - Joshua BlochJoshua BlochJoshua J. Bloch is a software engineer, currently employed at Google, and a technology author. He led the design and implementation of numerous Java platform features, including the Java Collections Framework, the java.math package, and the assert mechanism...
(1961), American software engineer - Jules BlochJules BlochJules Bloch was a French linguist who studied Indian languages, and was also interested in languages in their cultural and social contexts.- Bibliography :...
(1880-1953), French linguist - Julia Chang BlochJulia Chang BlochJulia Chang Bloch was an American diplomat, and the first U.S. ambassador of Asian origin. She is also the founder and current president of the US-China Education Trust.-Life and Political Career:...
(born 1942), American diplomat - Konrad Emil BlochKonrad Emil BlochKonrad Emil Bloch ForMemRS was a German American biochemist. Bloch received Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1964 for discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism.-Biography:Bloch was born in Neisse in the German Empire's Prussian...
(1912-2000), American biochemist - Kurt BlochKurt BlochKurt Bloch is an American songwriter, guitarist, engineer and producer, best known as songwriter and lead guitarist of Fastbacks. He has also been a member of The Young Fresh Fellows and has recorded tracks and produced albums for Tokyo Dragons, Robyn Hitchcock, Les Thugs, Flop, Sicko , The Minus...
(born 1960), American musician - Lucienne BlochLucienne BlochLucienne Bloch was born in Geneva, Switzerland, and came to America with her family in 1917. She was the youngest child of internationally famous composer and photographer Ernest Bloch....
(1909-1999), American photographer - Marc BlochMarc BlochMarc Léopold Benjamin Bloch was a French historian who cofounded the highly influential Annales School of French social history. Bloch was a quintessential modernist. An assimilated Alsatian Jew from an academic family in Paris, he was deeply affected in his youth by the Dreyfus Affair...
(1886-1944), French historian - Marcel Bloch (1892-1986), French aircraft industrialist, founder of the firm Société des Avions Marcel BlochSociété des Avions Marcel BlochThe Société des Avions Marcel Bloch was a French aircraft manufacturer of military and civilian aircraft, that further changed its name in Dassault Aviation, after the end of World War II....
- Marcus Elieser BlochMarcus Elieser BlochMarcus Elieser Bloch was a German medical doctor and naturalist. He is generally considered one of the most important ichthyologists of the 18th century.- Life :...
(1723-1799), German medical doctor and naturalist - Mark BlochMark BlochMark Bloch , also known as Pan, P.A.N., Panman, Panpost and the Post Art Network, is an American multi-media artist from Cleveland, Ohio, United States. Since 1982 he has lived in New York City...
(born 1956), American artist - Maurice BlochMaurice BlochMaurice Bloch is a British anthropologist.He attended the Lycée Carnot in Paris and the Perse School in Cambridge, moving to Britain at the age of eleven. His move to the UK was because his father had been killed by the Nazis when in the French Army and his mother, a marine biologist, had...
(born 1939), British anthropologist - Moshe Rudolf BlochMoshe Rudolf Bloch-Biography:Born in 1902 in Aussig-an-der-Elbe, Bohemia, then in Austria-Hungary. He received a PhD from the University of Bern. In 1926, he became head of the department of Metallography X-ray Spectography at the Technische Hochschule in Karlsruhe in Germany...
(1902-1985), Israeli scientist - Moses Löb BlochMoses Löb BlochMoses Löb Bloch was a Hungarian rabbi and rector at the Rabbinical Seminary of Budapest.-Life:...
(1815-1909), Hungarian rabbi - Orville Emil BlochOrville Emil BlochOrville Emil Bloch was a United States Army officer and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in World War II.-Biography:...
(1915-1983), American military officer and Medal of Honor recipient - Pedro BlochPedro BlochPedro Bloch was a Brazilian writer. His family immigrated to Brazil at the beginning of the 20th century....
(1914-2004), Brazilian writer - Richard BlochRichard BlochRichard Adolf Bloch was an American entrepreneur, and philanthropist best known for starting the H&R Block tax preparation and personal finance company with his older brother Henry in 1955...
(1926-2004), American businessman - Robert BlochRobert BlochRobert Albert Bloch was a prolific American writer, primarily of crime, horror and science fiction. He is best known as the writer of Psycho, the basis for the film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock...
(1917-1994), American writer - Robert Bloch (racing driver)Robert Bloch (racing driver)Robert Bloch is a French racing driver who, along with André Rossignol, won the 1926 24 Hours of Le Mans for French manufacturer Lorraine-Dietrich. Robert Bloch had been part of Lorraine-Dietrich's racing team since the inaugural 24 Hours of Le Mans in , finishing the event, but struggled to...
, French race car driver - Scott BlochScott BlochScott Bloch is a US attorney, former deputy director and counsel to the Department of Justice's Task Force for Faith-based and Community Initiatives, and former Special Counsel at the United States Office of Special Counsel...
, American lawyer and government official - Scotty BlochScotty BlochScotty Bloch is an American stage and television actress. She has been an actress since the 1940s. Her TV work included a recurring role on Kate and Allie as Jane Curtin's mother.-Background:...
, American actress - Shmaryahu Yitzchak BlochShmaryahu Yitzchak BlochRabbi Shmaryahu Yitzchak Bloch was a rabbi and Talmudist in Russia and England.There is very scant information about Rabbi Bloch's life...
(c.1862-1923), English rabbi - Sonny BlochSonny BlochIrwin H. "Sonny" Bloch was a popular American financial talk radio show host from 1980 to 1995 who defrauded investors of more than $24 million. He died of cancer in 1998 at the age of 61.- Career :...
(c.1937-1998) American radio show host - Spencer BlochSpencer BlochSpencer Janney Bloch is an American mathematician known for his contributions to algebraic geometry and algebraic K-theory. Bloch is a R. M. Hutchins Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics of the University of Chicago. He is a member of the U.S...
(born 1944), American mathematician - Thomas BlochThomas BlochThomas Bloch is a classical musician specializing in the rare instruments ondes Martenot, glass harmonica, and Cristal Baschet....
(born 1962), French classical musician - Waldemar BlochWaldemar BlochWaldemar Bloch was an Austrian composer.He wrote several operas, including Stella, Das Käthchen von Heilbronn and Der Diener zweier Herren, as well as choral and instrumental works. His 1968 oratorio Passio Domini was particularly well received.-List of works:"Sonate for Violin and Guitar. "FM1:...
(1906-1984), Austrian composer - Darius Paul DassaultDarius Paul DassaultDarius Paul Dassault born Darius Paul Bloch was a French general who was in the French Résistance in World War II....
(1882-1969)- French Army general of Jewish origin, born Darius Paul Bloch, who adopted Dassault as nom de guerrePseudonymA pseudonym is a name that a person assumes for a particular purpose and that differs from his or her original orthonym...
during French ResistanceFrench ResistanceThe French Resistance is the name used to denote the collection of French resistance movements that fought against the Nazi German occupation of France and against the collaborationist Vichy régime during World War II...
service. - Marcel DassaultMarcel DassaultMarcel Dassault, born Marcel Bloch was a French aircraft industrialist.-Biography:Dassault was born in Paris. After graduating from the lycée Condorcet, Breguet School and Supaero, he invented a type of aircraft propeller used by the French army during World War I and founded the Société des...
(1892-1986)- French aviation engineer and founder of Dassault, younger brother of Darius Paul and adopted brother's nom de guerre.
See also
- Bloch oscillationsBloch oscillationsBloch oscillation is a phenomenon from solid state physics. It describes the oscillation of a particle confined in a periodic potential when a constant force is acting on it....
, oscillation of a particle if a constant force is acting on it - Bloch ParkBloch ParkBloch Park is a baseball stadium in Selma, Alabama, United States. The Selma Cloverleafs of the independent Southeastern League of Professional Baseball played here before folding prior to the 2003 season...
, baseball stadium in Selma, Alabama, United States - Bloch (shoes)Bloch (shoes)Bloch is a manufacturer of dance shoes, accessories and apparel for dance styles such as classical ballet, contemporary, jazz, tap and chorus, to ballroom, Latin, salsa and hip hop.- History :...
, shoe manufacturer - Bloch spaceBloch spaceIn the mathematical field of complex analysis, the Bloch space, named after André Bloch and denoted , is the space of holomorphic functions f defined on the open unit disc D in the complex plane, such that the function...
, space of holomorphic functions - Bloch spectrum, concept in quantum mechanics
- Bloch sphereBloch sphereIn quantum mechanics, the Bloch sphere is a geometrical representation of the pure state space of a two-level quantum mechanical system , named after the physicist Felix Bloch....
, geometrical representation of the pure state space of a two-level quantum mechanical system - Bloch's theorem (complex variables)Bloch's theorem (complex variables)In complex analysis, a field within mathematics, Bloch's theorem is a result that gives a lower bound on the size of the image of a certain class of holomorphic functions. It is named after André Bloch.-Statement:...
, mathematical theorem - Bloch wallBloch wallA Bloch wall is a narrow transition region at the boundary between magnetic domains, over which the magnetization changes from its value in one domain to that in the next. The magnetization rotates along an axis that is perpendicular to the plane of the wall unlike the Néel wall where the...
, narrow transition region at the boundary between magnetic domains - Bloch waveBloch waveA Bloch wave or Bloch state, named after Felix Bloch, is the wavefunction of a particle placed in a periodic potential...
, wavefunction of a particle placed in a periodic potential