Bloch

Bloch  (blk, blôk, blô), Ernest 1880-1959.

Swiss-born American composer noted for his chamber music, such as Quintet for Piano and Strings (1923), and for works with Jewish themes, including Israel Symphony (1916).

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Bloch, Konrad Emil 1912-2000.

German-born American biochemist. He shared a 1964 Nobel Prize for research on cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism.

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Bloch [blɒk]

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1. (Biographies / Bloch, Ernest (1880-1959) M, USnational of birth: Swiss, MUSIC: composer) Ernest. 1880-1959, US composer, born in Switzerland, who found inspiration in Jewish liturgical and folk music: his works include the symphonies Israel(1916) and America (1926)

2. (Biographies / Bloch, Felix (1905-1983) M, USnational of birth: Swiss, SCIENCE: physicist) Felix. 1905-83, US physicist, born in Switzerland: Nobel prize for physics (1952) for his work on the magnetic moments of atomic particles

3. (Biographies / Bloch, Konrad Emil (1912 M, USnational of birth: German, SCIENCE: chemist) Konrad Emil. born 1912, US biochemist, born in Germany: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1964 for his work on fatty-acid metabolism

4. (Biographies / (French)) Marc. 1886-1944, French historian and Resistance fighter; author of Feudal Society (1935) and Strange Defeat (1940), an essay on the fall of France: killed by the Nazis

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Bloch - United States composer (born in Switzerland) who composed symphonies and chamber music and choral music and a piano sonata and an opera (1880-1959) Ernest Bloch