Willis Lamb

Willis Lamb, born on December 7, 1913, in Los Angeles, was an American physicist. He received the 1955 Nobel Prize in Physics and was known for his work on the Lamb shift, Lamb–Mössbauer factor, laser theory, and quantum optics. Lamb studied at the University of California, Berkeley, and Los Angeles High School. His academic discipline was physics.

Lamb's doctoral advisor was J. Robert Oppenheimer, and he advised several doctoral students, including Marlan Scully, Robert Retherford, Norman Myles Kroll, Bernard T. Feld, and Theodore Harold Maiman. He passed away on May 15, 2008, in Tucson, Arizona.