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Willis Lamb



         


Willis Eugene Lamb, Junior (July 12, 1913) is a physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955 "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum." Lamb, along with Polykarp Kusch were able to precisely determine certain electromagnetic properties of the electron.

Lamb was born in Los Angeles, California. First admitted in 1930, he received a Bachelor of Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1934 and a Ph.D in physics in 1938.

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