Willis Lamb
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Willis Lamb was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize for his discoveries about the structure of atoms and how light interacts with matter. His work in the mid-20th century helped establish modern quantum electrodynamics, which is the fundamental theory explaining how atoms behave and how they emit light.
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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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1913 births2008 deaths20th-century American physicistsAmerican experimental physicistsAmerican Nobel laureatesAmerican optical physicistsAmerican quantum physicistsAmerican spectroscopistsColumbia University facultyFellows of Optica (society)Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesFellows of the American Physical Society