Willis Lamb

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

American physicist (1913–2008)

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Willis Lamb was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize for his discoveries about the structure of atoms and how light interacts with matter. His work in the mid-20th century helped establish modern quantum electrodynamics, which is the fundamental theory explaining how atoms behave and how they emit light.

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“In his 1930 book, Dirac took for granted that measurements could be made, but was very vague about what was actually involved.”
“Neither Dirac nor von Neumann discussed his measurements in physical terms.”
“At the first of the 1960's Rochester Coherence Conferences, I suggested that a license be required for use of the word photon, and offered to give such license to properly qualified people.”
“I liked quantum mechanics very much. The subject was hard to understand but easy to apply to a large number of interesting problems.”
“In fact, there really is not a new law of nature. It was all in the theory to begin with but nobody worked it out.”

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Commons category: Willis Lamb
date of birth: 1913-07-12
date of death: 2008-05-15
Erdős number: 3
name in native language: Willis Eugene Lamb

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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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