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    Willis Eugene Lamb Jr. (/læm/; July 12, 1913 – May 15, 2008) was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955 "for his discoveries...
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    In physics, the Lamb shift, named after Willis Lamb, is an anomalous difference in energy between two electron orbitals in a hydrogen atom. The difference...
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  • In physics, the Lamb–Mössbauer factor (LMF, after Willis Lamb and Rudolf Mössbauer) or elastic incoherent structure factor (EISF) is the ratio of elastic...
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    his doctoral students, Willis Lamb, determined that this was a consequence of what became known as the Lamb shift, for which Lamb was awarded the Nobel...
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  • graduate student of Willis Lamb at Columbia Radiation Laboratory. Retherford and Lamb performed the famous experiment (now known as the Lamb–Retherford experiment)...
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    doctoral thesis in experimental physics, under the direction of physicist Willis Lamb, involved detailed microwave-optical measurements of fine structural...
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  • explicitly an American conference. Darrow was chairman of the conference. Willis Lamb had found when probing hydrogen atoms with microwave beams that one of...
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  • the series, leaving Lamb the sole presenter. For the final series of BBLB in 2010, Emma Willis joined Lamb as co-presenter. Willis moved with Big Brother...
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  • engineer Willis Jackson (saxophonist) (1932–1987), American jazz tenor saxophonist Willis Linn Jepson (1867–1946), American botanist Willis Lamb (1913–2008)...
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  • (1910–1994) Luis Walter Alvarez (1911–1988) Chien-Shiung Wu (1912–1997) Willis Lamb (1913–2008) Charles Hard Townes (1915–2015) Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958)...
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