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Biographical. Willis Eugene Lamb, Jr. was born on July 12, 1913 in Los Angeles, California. His father Willis Eugene Lamb, born in Minnesota, was by profession a telephone engineer and his mother Marie Helen Metcalf came from Nebraska. Except for three years schooling in Oakland, Calif., he was educated in the public schools of Los Angeles, Calif.

Willis Eugene Lamb, Jr., (born July 12, 1913, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.—died May 15, 2008, Tucson, Ariz.), American physicist and corecipient, with Polykarp Kusch, of the 1955 Nobel Prize for Physics for experimental work that spurred refinements in the quantum theories of electromagnetic phenomena.

Willis Eugene Lamb The Nobel Prize in Physics 1955. Born: 12 July 1913, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Died: 15 May 2008, Tucson, AZ, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. Prize motivation: “for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum” Prize share: 1/2

willis was born on july 12, 1913, in los angeles, california, to willis eugene lamb from minnesota and marie metcalf lamb from nebraska. his father was a telephone electrical engineer and his mother an alumna of stanford university. willis attended schools in or near los angeles until gradu- ating from high school. while he excelled in his studi...

Willis Lamb, who died on 15 May aged 94, received his highest recognition in 1955, when he was awarded one half of the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the subtle quantum-mechanical...

Willis Eugene Lamb The Nobel Prize in Physics 1955 . Born: 12 July 1913, Los Angeles, CA, USA . Died: 15 May 2008, Tucson, AZ, USA . Affiliation at the time of the award: Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA . Prize motivation: “for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum” Prize share: 1/2

Fri 23 May 2008 19.01 EDT. The discovery in April 1947 by the Nobel prizewinning physicist Willis E Lamb Jr of the eponymous Lamb shift in the spectrum of hydrogen was his Eureka moment.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1955 was divided equally between Willis Eugene Lamb "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum" and Polykarp Kusch "for his precision determination of the magnetic moment of the electron"