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Willis Lamb

Willis Lamb

American physicist
Willis Eugene Lamb Jr. was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955 "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum." Wikipedia
Born: July 12, 1913, Los Angeles, CA
Died: May 15, 2008 (age 94 years), Tucson, AZ
Awards: Nobel Prize in Physics, National Medal of Science for Physical Science, Rumford Prize, and more
Books: Laser Physics and The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Education: University of California, Berkeley (1938), Los Angeles High School, and College of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Doctoral advisor: J. Robert Oppenheimer
Known for: Lamb shift; Lamb–Mössbauer factor; Laser Theory; Quantum Optics