Bloch’s theorem was a major milestone that established the principle of bandgaps in crystals. Although it was once believed that bandgaps could form only under conditions of periodicity and long-range ...

“Nice, well, then—good on me!” Bloch says, laughing amenably. “It’s really cool, but it could have come from many places”.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Ofra Bloch about her documentary Afterward. Having grown up surrounded by Holocaust survivors, Bloch decided to examine her long-held belief that Germans were bad. In her ...

“In jazz”, muses Lena Bloch, “many things come together that are thought of as opposites: mind and feeling, responsibility and abandonment, looseness and precision, improvisation and composition. I ...