Willis Lamb
Physicist, Academic
1913 – 2008
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Who was Willis Lamb?
Willis Eugene Lamb, Jr. was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955 together with Polykarp Kusch "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum". Lamb and Kusch were able to precisely determine certain electromagnetic properties of the electron. Lamb was a professor at the University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences.
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- Born
- Jul 12, 1913
Los Angeles - Also known as
- Willis E. Lamb Jr.
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Doctor of Science, Columbia University
( - 1990) - PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Physics
( - 1938)
- Doctor of Science, Columbia University
- Employment
- University of Arizona
- Columbia University
- Lived in
- Arizona
( - 2008/05/15)
- Arizona
- Died
- May 15, 2008
Tucson
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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