Willis Lamb
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 Willis Eugene Lamb Jr. (1913-2008)
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| Born | July 12, 1913 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
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| Died | May 15, 2008 (aged 94) Tucson, Arizona, U.S. |
| Residence |  United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Physicist |
| Institutions | University of Arizona University of Oxford Yale Columbia Stanford |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral advisor | J. Robert Oppenheimer |
| Doctoral students | Marlan Scully Balázs László Győrffy |
| Known for | Lamb shift |
| Notable awards | Nobel Prize in Physics (1955) |
Willis Eugene Lamb, Jr. (July 12, 1913 - May 15, 2008) was a physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955 "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum". Lamb and Polykarp Kusch were able to precisely determine certain electromagnetic properties of the electron. See Lamb shift. Lamb was a professor at the University of Arizona.
Lamb was born in Los Angeles, California, United States and attended Los Angeles High School. First admitted in 1930, he received a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1934. For theoretical work on scattering of neutrons by a crystal, guided by J. Robert Oppenheimer, he received the Ph.D. in physics in 1938 . ecause of limited computational methods available at the time, this research narrowly missed revealing the Mössbauer Effect, 19 years before its recognition by Mössbauer. Lamb was the Wykeham Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford from 1956 to 1962, and also taught at Yale, Columbia and Stanford. Lamb died on May 15th, 2008, at the age of 94.
[edit] External links
- Obituary, University of Arizona, 16 May, 2008.
- Hans Bethe talking about Willis Lamb on Peoples Archive.
- Willis E Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics.
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| NAME | Lamb, Willis Eugene, Jr. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lamb, Willis |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | American Physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 12, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
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