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Willis Lamb
BornWillis Eugene Lamb Jr.
12 Julie 1913(1913-07-12)
Los Angeles, Californie, U.S.
Dee'd15 Mey 2008(2008-05-15) (aged 94)
Tucson, Arizona, U.S.
NaitionalityUnitit States
Alma materVarsity o Californie, Berkeley
Kent forLamb shift
Laser Theory
Quantum Optics
AwairdsNobel Prize in Physics (1955)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsVarsity o Arizona
Varsity o Oxford
Yale
Columbia
Stanford
Doctoral advisorJ. Robert Oppenheimer
Doctoral studentsBernard Feld (1945)
Norman Kroll (1948)
Theodore Maiman (1955)
Marlan Scully (1966)
Balázs László Győrffy (1966)
Frederick Hopf
Murray Sargent III
Stanley L. Kaufman
David Mader
Ralph Jacobs

Willis Eugene Lamb Jr. (Julie 12, 1913 – Mey 15, 2008) wis an American physicist wha wan the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955 "for his discoveries concernin the fine structur o the hydrogen spectrum."