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Marlan Scully (1966) Balázs László Győrffy (1966) 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." The Nobel Committee that year awarded half the prize to Lamb and the other ...
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May 15, 2008 · Willis Eugene Lamb, Jr. was born on July 12, 1913 in Los Angeles, California. His father Willis Eugene Lamb, born in Minnesota, was by profession a telephone engineer and his mother Marie Helen Metcalf came from Nebraska. Except for three years schooling in Oakland, Calif., he was educated in the public schools of Los Angeles, Calif.
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May 15, 2008 · Willis Eugene Lamb. 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 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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May 15, 2008 · Willis Eugene Lamb 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 Work
willis was born on july 12, 1913, in los angeles, california, to willis eugene lamb from minnesota and marie metcalf lamb from nebraska. his father was a telephone electrical engineer and his mother an alumna of stanford university. willis attended schools in or near los angeles until gradu-ating from high school. while he excelled in his ...
Willis Eugene Lamb Jr. was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955 "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum." The Nobel Committee that year awarded half the prize to Lamb and the other half to Polykarp Kusch, who won "for his precision determination of the magnetic moment of the electron." Lamb was able to precisely determine a ...
