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Willis Lamb

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Also known as Willis Lamb, Junior, Willis Lamb, Jr, Willis E. Lamb

American physicist (1913–2008)

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Willis E. Lamb (1913–2008) was a physicist who received one Nobel Prize. He is recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection, the Nobel Laureates collection, and the Nobel Physics collection. Lamb authored five works and has an Erdős number of 3.

In his writings, Lamb noted that neither Dirac nor von Neumann discussed his measurements in physical terms. He also stated that there was not a new law of nature, but rather that the theory had contained the answers all along, though nobody had worked it out.

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics1955

    “for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Los Angeles
Place of death
Tucson
Occupation
university teacher
Educated at
Los Angeles High School
Employer
Columbia University
Languages spoken
English language
Doctoral advisor
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Student of
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Field of work
hydrogen
Image
Willis Lamb 1955.jpg
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Willis Lamb
date of birth
1913-07-12
date of death
2008-05-15
member of
American Physical Society
Erdős number
3
nominated for
Nobel Prize in Physics
name in native language
Willis Eugene Lamb
student
Theodore Maiman
maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Mathematics
interested in
physics
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Encyclopedic overview

Willis Eugene Lamb Jr. (July 12, 1913 – May 15, 2008) was an American physicist who was able to precisely determine a surprising shift in electron energies in a hydrogen atom, known as the Lamb shift. For this work, Lamb shared the 1955 Nobel Prize in Physics with Polykarp Kusch. He was a professor at the University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences.

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