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Willis Lamb was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955 for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum. He also worked on nuclear theory, laser physics, quantum measurements, and quantum mechanics interpretation.
May 15, 2008 · Willis E. Lamb was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize for his work on the fine structure of hydrogen, deuterium and helium. He studied the electromagnetic properties of nuclear systems, the interactions of neutrons and matter, and the theory of a microwave spectroscope.
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 energy difference between two nearby levels in the hydrogen atom.
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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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Willis Eugene Lamb, Jr. 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.
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May 20, 2008 · Willis E. Lamb Jr., who shared the 1955 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of a slight and subtle discrepancy in the quantum theory describing how electrons behave in the hydrogen atom,...
Willis E. Lamb Jr. - Nobel Lecture. W I L L I S E . L A M B, JR . Fine structure of the hydrogen atom. Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1955. When the Nobel Prizes were first awarded in 1901, physicists knew something of just two objects which are now called « elementary particles »: the electron and the proton.
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