Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Willis Lamb

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American physicist Willis Lamb.

Last updated on October 6, 2024.

Willis Eugene Lamb Jr. was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955 "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum." The Nobel Committee that year awarded half the prize to Lamb and the other half to Polykarp Kusch, who won "for his precision determination of the magnetic moment of the electron." Lamb was able to determine precisely a surprising shift in electron energies in a hydrogen atom. Lamb was a professor at the University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences.

American - Physicist | July 12, 1913 - May 15, 2008

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A rare theorist turned experimentalist.

Willis Lamb

In his 1930 book, Dirac took for granted that measurements could be made, but was very vague about what was actually involved.

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A gifted experimentalist, and theoretician, in the best Newtonian tradition... His contributions to quantum measurements, and elucidative teachings on quantum mechanics, have not yet received the attention they deserve.

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I liked quantum mechanics very much. The subject was hard to understand but easy to apply to a large number of interesting problems.

Willis Lamb

You never find friends them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.

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