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Willis Lamb
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Willis Lamb

1913 – 2008 · aged 95

American physicist (1913–2008)

Born
12 Jul 1913 · Los Angeles
Died
15 May 2008 · Tucson

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 109 years
  1. 12 Jul 1913BornBorn in Los Angeles
  2. 1953AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Pennsylvania
  3. 1953AwardRumford Prize
  4. 1955AwardNobel Prize in Physics
  5. 1958AwardGuthrie Lecture
  6. 1960AwardGuggenheim Fellowship
  7. 1965AwardHonorary doctor of Yeshiva University
  8. 1990AwardHonorary doctorate from Columbia University
  9. 1992AwardEinstein Prize for Laser Science
  10. 1997AwardHonorary doctor of Ulm University
  11. 2000AwardNational Medal of Science
  12. 15 May 2008DiedDied in Tucson

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1913 – 2008).

  1. 1914 – 1918World War I
  2. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  3. 1917Balfour Declaration
  4. 1917February Revolution
  5. 1917October Revolution
  6. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  7. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  8. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  9. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  10. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  11. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  12. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  13. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  14. 1938Munich Agreement
  15. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  16. 1939 – 1945World War II
  17. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  18. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  19. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  20. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  21. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  22. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  23. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  24. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  25. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  26. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  27. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  29. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  30. 1956Suez Crisis
  31. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  32. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  33. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  35. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  36. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  37. 1968Prague Spring
  38. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  39. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  40. 19741974 FIFA World Cup

Biography

Willis Eugene Lamb Jr. (July 12, 1913 – May 15, 2008) was an American physicist who was able to precisely determine a surprising shift in electron energies in a hydrogen atom, known as the Lamb shift. For this work, Lamb shared the 1955 Nobel Prize in Physics with Polykarp Kusch. He was a professor at the University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences.

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