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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 ...
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.
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 Lamb discovered the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum, which challenged Dirac's theory of quantum electrodynamics. He used precise measurements to reveal the Lamb shift, a small difference in energy levels in the hydrogen atom.
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 ...
Jun 11, 2008 · Willis Lamb, who died on 15 May aged 94, received his highest recognition in 1955, when he was awarded one half of the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the subtle quantum-mechanical ...
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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
