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willis lamb wikipedia jump to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide navigation main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 education and career 2 quantum physics 3 personal life and death 4 recognition toggle recognition subsection 4 1 awards 4 2 memberships 4 3 national awards 5 notes 6 references 7 external links toggle the table of contents willis lamb 71 languages العربية مصرى azərbaycanca تۆرکجه беларуская български বাংলা català کوردی čeština dansk deutsch ελληνικά esperanto español eesti euskara فارسی suomi français galego गोंयची कोंकणी gõychi konknni 客家語 hak kâ ngî עברית हिन्दी hrvatski kreyòl ayisyen magyar հայերեն bahasa indonesia ido italiano 日本語 ქართული қазақша 한국어 kurdî latina latviešu македонски मराठी bahasa melayu مازِرونی नेपाल भाषा nederlands norsk nynorsk norsk bokmål occitan polski پنجابی português română русский संस्कृतम् scots slovenčina slovenščina српски srpski svenska kiswahili türkçe татарча tatarça українська اردو oʻzbekcha ўзбекча tiếng việt 吴语 მარგალური yorùbá 閩南語 bân lâm gí 中文 edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikimedia commons wikiquote wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia american physicist 1913 2008 willis lamb lamb in 1955 born willis eugene lamb jr 1913 07 12 july 12 1913 los angeles california us died may 15 2008 2008 05 15 aged 94 tucson arizona us education university of california berkeley bs phd known for lamb mössbauer factor 1939 lamb shift 1947 title wykeham professor of physics 1956 1962 predecessor maurice pryce successor rudolf peierls spouse ursula schäfer m 1939 died 1996 awards rumford prize 1953 nobel prize in physics 1955 einstein prize for laser science 1992 national medal of science 2000 scientific career fields atomic physics quantum physics workplaces columbia university 1938 51 stanford university 1951 56 oxford university 1956 62 yale university from 1962 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 t feld 1945 1 norman myles kroll 1948 1 theodore maiman 1955 1 balázs lászló győrffy 1966 1 marlan scully 1966 1 willis eugene lamb jr july 12 1913 may 15 2008 was an american physicist who was able to precisely determine a surprising shift in electron energies in a hydrogen atom known as the lamb shift for this work lamb shared the 1955 nobel prize in physics with polykarp kusch 2 he was a professor at the university of arizona college of optical sciences education and career edit willis eugene lamb jr was born on july 12 1913 in los angeles california the son of willis eugene lamb sr a telephone engineer and marie helen metcalf first admitted in 1930 he obtained a b s 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 lamb received his ph d in physics in 1938 3 4 because of limited computational methods available at the time this research narrowly missed revealing the mössbauer effect 19 years before its recognition by rudolf mössbauer 5 he worked on nuclear theory laser physics and verifying quantum mechanics in 1938 lamb became instructor in physics at columbia university where he was promoted to professor of physics in 1948 in 1951 he was appointed professor of physics at stanford university from 1956 to 1962 he was wykeham professor of physics at the university of oxford where he was also a fellow of new college in 1962 he was appointed henry ford ii professor of physics at yale university 3 in 1974 he became professor of physics and optical science at the university of arizona where he remained until his retirement in 2003 6 quantum physics edit in addition to his crucial and famous contribution to quantum electrodynamics via the lamb shift in the latter part of his career he paid increasing attention to the field of quantum measurements 7 8 9 in one of his writings lamb stated that most people who use quantum mechanics have little need to know much about the interpretation of the subject 9 lamb was also openly critical of many of the interpretational trends on quantum mechanics 10 and of the use of the term photon 11 personal life and death edit in 1939 lamb married ursula schäfer 1914 1996 a german student who became a distinguished historian of latin america and assumed his last name 12 13 lamb died on may 15 2008 at the age of 94 5 due to complications of a gallstone disorder lamb is remembered as a rare theorist turned experimentalist by d kaiser 14 recognition edit awards edit year organization award citation ref 1953 american academy of arts and sciences rumford prize a for his studies of the atomic hydrogen spectrum 15 1955 royal swedish academy of sciences nobel prize in physics b for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum 2 memberships edit year organization type ref 1954 national academy of sciences member 16 1963 american academy of arts and sciences member 17 2000 optical society of america honorary member 18 national awards edit year head of state award citation ref 2000 bill clinton national medal of science for his towering contributions to classical and quantum theories of laser radiation and quantum optics and to the proper interpretation of quantum mechanics 19 notes edit shared with enrico fermi and lars onsager shared with polykarp kusch references edit 1 2 3 4 5 willis lamb jr the mathematics genealogy project genealogy math ndsu nodak edu 1 2 nobel prize in physics 1955 nobel foundation archived from the original on december 1 2008 retrieved october 9 2008 1 2 willis e lamb biographical nobel foundation archived from the original on march 12 2026 retrieved may 1 2026 stiles lori may 16 2008 willis e lamb jr 1955 nobel laureate in physics dies at 94 the university of arizona news archived from the original on august 28 2008 retrieved september 27 2012 1 2 holley joe may 19 2008 willis e lamb jr 94 nobel prize winning physicist the washington post retrieved september 27 2012 willis e lamb american institute of physics archived from the original on july 3 2025 retrieved may 1 2026 lamb w e jr retherford r c 1947 fine structure of the hydrogen atom by a microwave method physical review 72 3 241 243 bibcode 1947phrv 72 241r doi 10 1103 physrev 72 241 w e lamb quantum theory of measurement annals of the new york academy of sciences 480 407 416 1986 1 2 w e lamb quantum theory of measurement in noise and chaos in nonlinear dynamical systems cambridge university cambridge 1990 pp 1 14 w e lamb super classical quantum mechanics the best interpretation of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics am j phys 69 413 421 2001 lamb willis e anti photon applied physics b 60 1995 77 84 andreas daum hartmut lehmann james sheehan eds the second generation émigrés from nazi germany as historians with a biobibliographic guide new york berghahn books 2016 isbn 978 1 78238 985 9 12 34 36 398 99 ursula lamb ua historian dies at 82 retrieved march 22 2015 cite web cs1 maint deprecated archival service link accessed 5 july 2016 d kaiser drawing theories apart the dispersion of feynman diagrams university of chicago chicago 2005 rumford prize recipients www amacad org archived from the original on october 11 2025 retrieved december 4 2025 willis e lamb jr www nasonline org archived from the original on february 19 2026 retrieved may 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1925 1901 röntgen 1902 lorentz zeeman 1903 becquerel p curie m curie 1904 rayleigh 1905 lenard 1906 j j thomson 1907 michelson 1908 lippmann 1909 marconi braun 1910 van der waals 1911 wien 1912 dalén 1913 kamerlingh onnes 1914 laue 1915 w l bragg w h bragg 1916 1917 barkla 1918 planck 1919 stark 1920 guillaume 1921 einstein 1922 n bohr 1923 millikan 1924 m siegbahn 1925 franck hertz 1926 1950 1926 perrin 1927 compton c wilson 1928 o richardson 1929 de broglie 1930 raman 1931 1932 heisenberg 1933 schrödinger dirac 1934 1935 chadwick 1936 hess c d anderson 1937 davisson g p thomson 1938 fermi 1939 lawrence 1940 1941 1942 1943 stern 1944 rabi 1945 pauli 1946 bridgman 1947 appleton 1948 blackett 1949 yukawa 1950 powell 1951 1975 1951 cockcroft walton 1952 bloch purcell 1953 zernike 1954 born bothe 1955 lamb kusch 1956 shockley bardeen brattain 1957 c n yang t d lee 1958 cherenkov frank tamm 1959 segrè chamberlain 1960 glaser 1961 hofstadter mössbauer 1962 landau 1963 wigner goeppert mayer jensen 1964 townes basov prokhorov 1965 tomonaga schwinger feynman 1966 kastler 1967 bethe 1968 alvarez 1969 gell mann 1970 alfvén néel 1971 gabor 1972 bardeen cooper schrieffer 1973 esaki giaever josephson 1974 ryle hewish 1975 a bohr mottelson rainwater 1976 2000 1976 richter ting 1977 p w anderson mott van vleck 1978 kapitsa penzias r wilson 1979 glashow salam weinberg 1980 cronin fitch 1981 bloembergen schawlow k siegbahn 1982 k wilson 1983 chandrasekhar fowler 1984 rubbia van der meer 1985 von klitzing 1986 ruska binnig rohrer 1987 bednorz müller 1988 lederman schwartz steinberger 1989 ramsey dehmelt paul 1990 friedman kendall r taylor 1991 de gennes 1992 charpak 1993 hulse j taylor 1994 brockhouse shull 1995 perl reines 1996 d lee osheroff r richardson 1997 chu cohen tannoudji phillips 1998 laughlin störmer tsui 1999 t hooft veltman 2000 alferov kroemer kilby 2001 present 2001 cornell ketterle wieman 2002 davis koshiba giacconi 2003 abrikosov ginzburg leggett 2004 gross politzer wilczek 2005 glauber hall hänsch 2006 mather smoot 2007 fert grünberg 2008 nambu makoto kobayashi maskawa 2009 kao boyle smith 2010 geim novoselov 2011 perlmutter schmidt riess 2012 wineland haroche 2013 englert higgs 2014 akasaki amano nakamura 2015 kajita mcdonald 2016 thouless haldane kosterlitz 2017 weiss barish thorne 2018 ashkin mourou strickland 2019 peebles mayor queloz 2020 penrose genzel ghez 2021 parisi hasselmann manabe 2022 aspect clauser zeilinger 2023 agostini krausz l huillier 2024 hopfield hinton 2025 clarke devoret martinis v t e 1955 nobel prize laureates chemistry vincent du vigneaud united states literature 1955 halldór laxness iceland peace none physics willis lamb united states polykarp kusch united states physiology or medicine hugo theorell sweden nobel prize recipients 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 authority control databases international isni viaf gnd fast worldcat national united states france bnf data italy czech republic spain 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