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Lamb, Willis Eugene, Jr. (1913–2008)


Willis Eugene Lamb
American physicist who shared with Polykarp Kusch the 1955 Nobel Prize in Physics for his examination of the hydrogen spectrum. He devised new techniques whereby he was able to show that the position of certain lines differed from the theoretical predictions, thus necessitating a revision of atomic theory.


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