Awards & Winners

Willis Lamb

Date of Birth 12-July-1913
Place of Birth Los Angeles
(Southern California, Los Angeles County, United States of America, California)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Willis E. Lamb Jr.
Profession Physicist
Willis Eugene Lamb, Jr. was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955 together with Polykarp Kusch "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum". Lamb and Kusch were able to precisely determine certain electromagnetic properties of the electron. Lamb was a professor at the University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences.

Awards by Willis Lamb

Check all the awards nominated and won by Willis Lamb.

2000


National Medal of Science for Physical Science
(For his towering contributions to classical and quantum theories of laser radiation and quantum optics, and to the proper interpretation of quantum mechanics.)

1955


Nobel Prize in Physics
(for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum)

1953


Rumford Prize
(For his studies of the atomic hydrogen spectrum.)