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    Willis Eugene Lamb Jr. (/læm/; July 12, 1913 – May 15, 2008) was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955 "for his discoveries...
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    In physics the Lamb shift, named after Willis Lamb, refers to an anomalous difference in energy between two electron orbitals in a hydrogen atom. The...
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    his doctoral students, Willis Lamb, determined that this was a consequence of what became known as the Lamb shift, for which Lamb was awarded the Nobel...
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  • In physics, the Lamb–Mössbauer factor (LMF, after Willis Lamb and Rudolf Mössbauer) or elastic incoherent structure factor (EISF) is the ratio of elastic...
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  • graduate student of Willis Lamb at Columbia Radiation Laboratory. Retherford and Lamb performed the famous experiment revealing Lamb shift in the fine structure...
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  • explicitly an American conference. Darrow was chairman of the conference. Willis Lamb had found when probing hydrogen atoms with microwave beams that one of...
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    doctoral thesis in experimental physics, under the direction of physicist Willis Lamb, involved detailed microwave-optical measurements of fine structural...
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    Julian Schwinger, William T. Silfvast, S. E. Harris, L. M. Narducci, Willis Lamb, Norman F. Ramsey, F. J. Duarte, Theodor W. Hänsch, Carl E. Wieman, David...
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    Walls, 1990 S. E. Harris, 1991 L. M. Narducci, 1991 John L. Hall, 1992 Willis E. Lamb, 1992 Raymond Chiao, 1993 Norman F. Ramsey, 1993 G. S. Agarwal, 1994...
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    Bohr, who was to lecture at Princeton University. Isidor Isaac Rabi and Willis Lamb, two Columbia University physicists working at Princeton, found out about...
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  • engineer Willis Jackson (saxophonist) (1932–1987), American jazz tenor saxophonist Willis Linn Jepson (1867–1946), American botanist Willis Lamb (1913–2008)...
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  • (1910–1994) Luis Walter Alvarez (1911–1988) Chien-Shiung Wu (1912–1997) Willis Lamb (1913–2008) Charles Hard Townes (1915–2015) Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958)...
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    could not make the confusing "zoo" fit into some tidy conceptual scheme. Willis Lamb, in his 1955 Nobel Prize Lecture, joked that he had heard it said that...
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  • the series, leaving Lamb the sole presenter. For the final series of BBLB in 2010, Emma Willis joined Lamb as co-presenter. Willis moved with Big Brother...
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    Niels Bohr, who was to lecture at Princeton University. I.I. Rabi and Willis Lamb, two Columbia University physicists working at Princeton, heard the news...
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  • Eugene Wigner's focus on the measurement problem, conversations with Willis Lamb, and John Archibald Wheeler's thought experiments. The paper also points...
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    Ernest Hemingway United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 1955 Willis Lamb; Polykarp Kusch Vincent du Vigneaud Hugo Theorell Halldór Laxness None...
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    describe both the positively and negatively charged variants. In 1947, Willis Lamb, working in collaboration with graduate student Robert Retherford, found...
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  • F. Lamb (1883–1952), designer of the Empire State Building William Kaye Lamb (1904–1999), Canadian historian Willis Lamb, American physicist (Lamb shift)...
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    "for the coincidence method and his discoveries made therewith" 1955 Willis Lamb (1913–2008)  United States "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure...
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    research. A major talking point at the conference was the discovery by Willis Lamb and his graduate student, Robert Retherford, shortly before the conference...
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    in the United States, by Enrico Fermi The 1947 measurements by Willis Lamb of the Lamb shift, and by Polykarp Kusch of the electron's anomalous magnetic...
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  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He received his PhD under the guidance of Willis Lamb at Yale University in 1965. After completing his graduate work at Yale...
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    opposite George Lamb. In 2019, Willis replaced Alice Levine and Maya Jama as host of The Circle. In 2010, it was announced that Willis would replace Melinda...
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  • supervision of Willis Lamb and I. I. Rabi. In 1943 Kroll received his master's degree and in 1948 his PhD from Columbia University with Lamb as thesis advisor...
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    received the Willis Lamb Award on his pioneering work on coherent Ising machines. Willis Lamb Award. "The 2022 Winners". The Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser...
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    and eleven future laureates, including seven faculty (Polykarp Kusch, Willis Lamb, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, James Rainwater, Norman Ramsey, Charles Townes...
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  • 2004 Carnegie Mellon University University of California, Santa Barbara Willis Lamb Physics 1955 Stanford University Lev Landau Physics 1962 Academy of Sciences...
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    Lewis Hall) Hall's website Group photograph taken at Lasers '92 including, right to left, Marlan Scully, Willis Lamb, John L. Hall, and F. J. Duarte....
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    for work done while on faculty at Columbia University: Polykarp Kusch Willis Lamb Charles Townes Tsung-Dao Lee James Rainwater Leon Lederman Melvin Schwartz...
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