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Awards
National Medal of Science (2000) Einstein Prize for Laser Science (1982) Guthrie Lecture (1958) Nobel Prize in Physics (1955)
Scientific career
Fields
Physics
Institutions
University of Arizona University of Oxford Yale University Columbia University Stanford University
Thesis
I. On the Capture of Slow Neutrons in Hydrogenuous Substances, II. Electromagnetic Properties of Nuclear Systems (1938)
Doctoral advisor
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Doctoral students
Bernard Feld (1945) Robert Retherford (1947) Norman Kroll (1948) Theodore Maiman (1955) 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 half to Polykarp Kusch, who won "for his precision determination of the magnetic moment of the electron." Lamb was able to precisely determine a surprising shift in electron energies in a hydrogen atom (see Lamb shift). Lamb was a professor at the University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences.
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...
In physics the Lamb shift, named after WillisLamb, refers to an anomalous difference in energy between two electron orbitals in a hydrogen atom. The...
graduate student of WillisLamb at Columbia Radiation Laboratory. Retherford and Lamb performed the famous experiment revealing Lamb shift in the fine structure...
the series, leaving Lamb the sole presenter. For the final series of BBLB in 2010, Emma Willis joined Lamb as co-presenter. Willis moved with Big Brother...
explicitly an American conference. Darrow was chairman of the conference. WillisLamb had found when probing hydrogen atoms with microwave beams that one of...
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He received his PhD under the guidance of WillisLamb at Yale University in 1965. After completing his graduate work at Yale...
Bohr, who was to lecture at Princeton University. Isidor Isaac Rabi and WillisLamb, two Columbia University physicists working at Princeton, found out about...
doctoral thesis in experimental physics, under the direction of physicist WillisLamb, involved detailed microwave-optical measurements of fine structural...
Eugene Wigner's focus on the measurement problem, conversations with WillisLamb, and John Archibald Wheeler's thought experiments. The paper also points...
(1910–1994) Luis Walter Alvarez (1911–1988) Chien-Shiung Wu (1912–1997) WillisLamb (1913–2008) Charles Hard Townes (1915–2015) Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958)...
Ernest Hemingway United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 1955 WillisLamb; Polykarp Kusch Vincent du Vigneaud Hugo Theorell Halldór Laxness None...
Julian Schwinger, William T. Silfvast, S. E. Harris, L. M. Narducci, WillisLamb, Norman F. Ramsey, F. J. Duarte, Theodor W. Hänsch, Carl E. Wieman, David...
supervision of WillisLamb and I. I. Rabi. In 1943 Kroll received his master's degree and in 1948 his PhD from Columbia University with Lamb as thesis advisor...
Niels Bohr, who was to lecture at Princeton University. I.I. Rabi and WillisLamb, two Columbia University physicists working at Princeton, heard the news...
could not make the confusing "zoo" fit into some tidy conceptual scheme. WillisLamb, in his 1955 Nobel Prize Lecture, joked that he had heard it said that...
research. A major talking point at the conference was the discovery by WillisLamb and his graduate student, Robert Retherford, shortly before the conference...
and eleven future laureates, including seven faculty (Polykarp Kusch, WillisLamb, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, James Rainwater, Norman Ramsey, Charles Townes...
describe both the positively and negatively charged variants. In 1947, WillisLamb, working in collaboration with graduate student Robert Retherford, found...
"for the coincidence method and his discoveries made therewith" 1955 WillisLamb (1913–2008) United States "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure...
2004 Carnegie Mellon University University of California, Santa Barbara WillisLamb Physics 1955 Stanford University Lev Landau Physics 1962 Academy of Sciences...
opposite George Lamb. In 2019, Willis replaced Alice Levine and Maya Jama as host of The Circle. In 2010, it was announced that Willis would replace Melinda...
Paxton, and WillisLamb. All these men were recognized as among the finest of their generation and four of them — Fermi, Rabi, Bethe, and Lamb — were to...
Zetterström describes hydrox. 1947 – WillisLamb and Robert Retherford measure the small energy shift (the Lamb shift) between the 2S1/2 and 2P1/2 orbitals...