He was actually a well-known physicist

彼时的他是个著名的物理学家
but he hadn't done anything really earthshaking at all.

但他并未做出过什么震天撼地的大事
He was at the University of Zurich.

他那时在苏黎世大学
And Felix Bloch,

这是费利克斯·布洛赫
who was a student then --

那时他还是个学生
two years before he had come as an undergraduate

在那两年前
to the university of Zurich to study engineering,

他来到苏黎世大学读工程学本科
and after a year and a half he decided he would do physics,

不过学到一年半的时候他决定转攻物理
which was completely impractical and not to the taste of his parents.

一个完全不实用且不中他父母的意的学科
But anyhow, as an undergraduate

作为本科生的他
he went to these colloquia that the Physics Department had,

去参加了物理系里的座谈会
and he wrote fifty years later - see this was 1976,

这是他在50年以后的1976年写到的