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 shared the 1955 Nobel Prize in Physics with Polykarp Kusch "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum". Lamb was able to precisely determine a surprising shift in electron energies in a hydrogen atom. Lamb was a professor at the University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences.