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Willis Lamb

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Also known as Willis Lamb, Junior, Willis Lamb, Jr, Willis E. Lamb

American physicist (1913–2008)

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Willis E. Lamb (1913–2008) was a physicist who received one Nobel Prize. He is recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection, the Nobel Laureates collection, and the Nobel Physics collection. Lamb authored five works and has an Erdős number of 3.

In his writings, Lamb noted that neither Dirac nor von Neumann discussed his measurements in physical terms. He also stated that there was not a new law of nature, but rather that the theory had contained the answers all along, though nobody had worked it out.

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5 total works indexed

  1. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

    · 2019 · cited 20,854x

  2. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

    · 2016 · cited 11,691x

  3. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary

    · 2000 · cited 8,915x

  4. Better reporting of interventions: template for intervention description and replication (TIDieR) checklist and guide

    · 2014 · cited 8,292x

  5. GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral

    · 2017 · cited 8,252x

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Quotes

  • “In his 1930 book, Dirac took for granted that measurements could be made, but was very vague about what was actually involved.”
  • “Neither Dirac nor von Neumann discussed his measurements in physical terms.”
  • “At the first of the 1960's Rochester Coherence Conferences, I suggested that a license be required for use of the word photon, and offered to give such license to properly qualified people.”
  • “I liked quantum mechanics very much. The subject was hard to understand but easy to apply to a large number of interesting problems.”
  • “In fact, there really is not a new law of nature. It was all in the theory to begin with but nobody worked it out.”

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics1955

    “for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum”

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Encyclopedic overview

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. He was a professor at the University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences.

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