Willis Lamb Jr., 94, Dies; Won Nobel for Work on Atom

Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 01:07 in Physics & Chemistry

Mr. Lamb shared the 1955 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of a discrepancy in the quantum theory describing how electrons behave in the hydrogen atom.

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