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Willis Lamb

Scientist · born July 12, 1913 · died 2008

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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.

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  1. ~42Received the Nobel Prize in Physics1955
  2. ~47Named Guggenheim Fellowship1960
  3. ~87Received the National Medal of Science2000

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