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"I liked quantum mechanics very much. The subject was hard to understand but easy to apply to a large number of interesting problems."
Willis LambIn fact, there really is not a new law of nature. It was all in the th — Willis Lamb
"In fact, there really is not a new law of nature. It was all in the theory to begin with but nobody worked it out."
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Willis Eugene Lamb Jr. 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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