Professor Felix Bloch - First Fulbright Alumnus to have won a Nobel Prize
American Fulbright alumnus, Professor Felix Bloch was a Nobel Prize Laurate in Physics in 1952. Seven years later, he came from Stanford University to The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, as a Fulbright Lecturer Fellow. He was the first Fulbright alumni to have won a Nobel Prize.
A nuclear physicist, Bloch’s crowning achievement was the technique he developed for accurately observing and measuring the magnetic properties of nuclear particles, what he called “nuclear induction.” Bloch received half of the Nobel Prize for the discovery of this method, along with American physicist Edward Purcell. Later known as nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), it is the basis of the medical imaging technique, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
Fulbright-Albright Anniversary Event
Fulbright Israel is delighted to be co-hosting a special anniversary event with the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research. The event celebrates 70 years of Fulbright Israel, 125 years of the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, and 250 years of the United States of America.
The full-day event will take place on Sunday February 8, 2026, at the Albright Institute in Jerusalem and promises an exciting variety of conversations, research presentations and activities, highlighting contributions of American and Israeli scholars to archaeology, ancient history, and related disciplines.