| Myer Bloom | |
| Birth Date: | 7 December 1928 |
| Birth Place: | Montreal |
| Death Place: | Vancouver |
| Fields: | Physics |
| Workplaces: | University of British Columbia |
| Awards: | C.A.P. Gold Medal Izaak-Walton-Killam Award (1995) |
Myer Bloom, (7 December 1928 – 9 February 2016) was a Canadian physicist, specializing in the theory and applications of Nuclear magnetic resonance.[1]
Bloom was born into a Jewish family in Montreal in 1928.[2] After secondary education at Baron Byng High School,[3] Bloom received in 1949 his B.S. and in 1950 his M.S. from McGill University.[4] In 1954 he received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign under Charles Slichter with thesis Magnetic Induction in Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance.[5] Bloom was supported by an NRC Travelling Postdoctoral Fellowship at Leiden University from 1954 to 1956. At the University of British Columbia, he was a research associate in 1956–1957, an assistant professor in 1957–1960, an associate professor in 1960–1963, a full professor in 1963–1994, and professor emeritus from 1995 until his death. He was a visiting professor at Harvard University, Kyoto University, the University of Paris Sud, the University of Rome, and the Danish Technical University.[6]
With Karl Erdman, Bloom collaborated on the transverse Stern–Gerlach experiment.[7]
He had a wife Margaret Patricia Bloom (née Holmes), a son David Bloom, and a daughter Margot Bloom.[6] He published in 2014 a book of personal recollections Lucky Hazards: My Life in Physics.[3]