The Nobel Prize in Physics 1955
Awarded on: 1955-11-02
"for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum"
Affiliations:
- Stanford University – Stanford, CA, USA
Willis Eugene Lamb
Born: 1913-07-12 in Los Angeles, CA, USA
Gender: male
Field: American physicist (1913–2008)
Biography
Willis Eugene Lamb Jr. 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.