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Willis Eugene Lamb Jr. (/ l æ m /; July 12, 1913 – May 15, 2008) was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955 "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum."
May 15, 2008 · The Nobel Prize in Physics 1955. Born: 12 July 1913, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Died: 15 May 2008, Tucson, AZ, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. Prize motivation: “for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum”. Prize share: 1/2.
May 15, 2008 · His thesis research on the electromagnetic properties of nuclear systems was directed by Professor J.R. Oppenheimer. He went to Columbia University as Instructor in Physics in 1938, became an Associate (1943), Assistant Professor (1945), Associate Professor (1947) and Professor in 1948.
In physics the Lamb shift, named after Willis Lamb, refers to an anomalous difference in energy between two electron orbitals in a hydrogen atom. The difference was not predicted by theory and it cannot be derived from the Dirac equation , which predicts identical energies.
May 11, 2024 · Willis Eugene Lamb, Jr. (born July 12, 1913, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.—died May 15, 2008, Tucson, Ariz.) was an American physicist and corecipient, with Polykarp Kusch, of the 1955 Nobel Prize for Physics for experimental work that spurred refinements in the quantum theories of electromagnetic phenomena. Lamb joined the faculty of Columbia ...
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Willis Eugene Lamb Jr. ( / læm /; July 12, 1913 – May 15, 2008) was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955 "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum."
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3. willis e. lamb, jr. July 12, 1913—May 15, 2008. by LEON COHEN, MARLAN SCULLY, AND ROBERT SCULLY. t. he lamb shift experiment1was a landmark in 20th-century physics. lamb devised an experiment that would be a crucial test of and provide the stimulus for renormalized quantum field theory. the experiments of lamb and his students grounded ...
