Willis Lamb
Willis Eugene Lamb Jr. was an American physicist who shared the 1955 Nobel Prize in Physics with Polykarp Kusch "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum". Lamb was able to precisely determine a surprising shift in electron energies in a hydrogen atom, known as the Lamb shift.
Background
- Born in
- Los Angeles
- Educated at
- University of California, BerkeleyLos Angeles High School
- Awards
- 🏆 Nobel Prize in Physics🏆 Einstein Prize for Laser Science🏆 National Medal of Science🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship🏆 Rumford Prize
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Robert Oppenheimer
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Norman Kroll📖 Marlan Scully
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"In his 1930 book, Dirac took for granted that measurements could be made, but was very vague about what was actually involved."
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1913
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