Born in Neisse, Germany, in 1912. Educated at the Technische Hochschule in Munich, fled the Nazis in 1934 and went to the Schweizerische Forschungsinstitut in Davos, Switzerland, before moving to the United States in 1936. Appointed to the department of biological chemistry at Yale Medical School. In America he enrolled at Columbia University, he received a Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1938. He taught at Columbia from 1939 to 1946. From there he went to the university of Chicago and then to Harvard University as Higgins Professor of Biochemistry in 1954, a post he held until his retirement in 1982
Bloch was born in Neisse, Germany, in 1912 and came to the United States in 1936.
Bloch took the first letter to the U.S. consulate in Frankfurt, and that was enough to get him an immigration visa to the U.S. "Perhaps the consul was a Yale man," Bloch wrote later.
Bloch received honorary degrees from Brandeis, Columbia, and Hokkaido universities, and from the universities of Brazil, Nancy, and Uruguay.
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