Moshe Rudolf Bloch
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Moshe Rudolf "Rudi" Bloch (Hebrew: משה רודולף בלוך, born 2 August 1902, died 1985) was an Israeli scientist. He was awarded the Israel Prize in 1966 for his work in life sciences.
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Born in Aussig-an-der-Elbe, 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. His activities included work on crystal nucleation and on refridgeration technology , and experiments on the prevention of super cooling of water.
In Israel, Bloch was responsible for researching and developing solar energy processes and products sourced from the Dead Sea, and became head of the Negev Desert Research Institute. He became known as the father of Israeli solar energy. Bloch was awarded both the Israel prize for life sciences, and the Weizmann Institute of Science prize for science in 1966, and held honorary positions at several of Israel's scientific and academic institutes.
