Willis Lamb, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Willis Lamb

American Physicist

Date of Birth: 12-Jul-1913

Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States

Date of Death: 15-May-2008

Profession: physicist, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Willis Eugene Lamb Jr.
(; July 12, 1913 – May 15, 2008) was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955 "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum." The Nobel Committee that year awarded half the prize to Lamb and the other half to Polykarp Kusch, who won "for his precision determination of the magnetic moment of the electron." Lamb was able to determine precisely a surprising shift in electron energies in a hydrogen atom (see Lamb shift).
Lamb was a professor at the University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences.