Willis Lamb

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Willis Lamb
Balázs László Győrffy
(1966)

Willis Eugene Lamb Jr. (

University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences
.

Biography

Lamb was born in

Mössbauer.[2]
He worked on nuclear theory, laser physics, and verifying quantum mechanics.

Lamb was a physics professor at

Yale, Columbia and the University of Arizona. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1963.[4]

Lamb is remembered as a "rare theorist turned experimentalist" by D. Kaiser.[5]

Quantum physics

In addition to his crucial and famous contribution to quantum electrodynamics via the Lamb shift, in the latter part of his career he paid increasing attention to the field of quantum measurements.[6][7][8] In one of his writings Lamb stated that "most people who use quantum mechanics have little need to know much about the interpretation of the subject."[8] Lamb was also openly critical of many of the interpretational trends on quantum mechanics.[9] and of the use of the term photon.[10]

Personal

In 1939 Lamb married his first wife, Ursula Schäfer, a German student, who became a distinguished historian of Latin America (and assumed his last name).[11][12] After her death in 1996, he married physicist Bruria Kaufman in 1996, whom he later divorced. In 2008 he married Elsie Wattson.

Lamb died on May 15, 2008, at the age of 94,[2] due to complications of a gallstone disorder.

References

  1. ^ Stiles, Lori (May 16, 2008). "Willis E. Lamb Jr., 1955 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Dies at 94". The University of Arizona News. Archived from the original on August 28, 2008. Retrieved September 27, 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ^ a b Holley, Joe (May 19, 2008). "Willis E. Lamb Jr., 94; Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist". The Washington Post. Retrieved September 27, 2012.
  3. ^ Stanford Report, "Other Nobel connections to the Farm," Oct. 3, 2001
  4. ^ "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter L" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 22 April 2011.
  5. ^ D. Kaiser, Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams (University of Chicago, Chicago, 2005).
  6. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.72.241
    .
  7. ^ W. E. Lamb, Quantum theory of measurement, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 480, 407-416 (1986).
  8. ^ a b W. E. Lamb, Quantum theory of measurement, in Noise and Chaos in Nonlinear Dynamical Systems (Cambridge University, Cambridge, 1990) pp. 1-14.
  9. ^ W. E. Lamb, Super classical quantum mechanics: the best interpretation of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics, Am. J. Phys. 69, 413-421 (2001)
  10. ^ Lamb, Willis E. "Anti-photon." Applied Physics B 60 (1995): 77-84.
  11. ISBN 978-1-78238-985-9
    , 12, 34, 36, 398‒99.
  12. ^ "Ursula Lamb, UA historian, dies at 82". Archived from the original on 2015-04-05. Retrieved 2015-03-22. accessed 5 July 2016.

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