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Nature 453, 867 (12 June 2008) | doi:10.1038/453867a; Published online 11 June 2008

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Obituary: Willis E. Lamb Jr (1913–2008)

Murray Sargent1

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Meticulous physicist and discoverer of the Lamb shift.

Willis Lamb, who died on 15 May aged 94, received his highest recognition in 1955, when he was awarded one half of the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the subtle quantum-mechanical shift in energy levels of the hydrogen atom that now bears his name. But in truth, he might have been nominated twice more.

  1. Murray Sargent is at the Microsoft Corporation, 1 Microsoft Way, Redmond, Washington 98052, USA.
    Email: murrays@microsoft.com

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