| Who is it? | Physicist |
| Birth Day | July 12, 1913 |
| Birth Place | Los Angeles, California, U.S., United States |
| Age | 107 YEARS OLD |
| Died On | May 15, 2008(2008-05-15) (aged 94)\nTucson, Arizona, U.S. |
| Birth Sign | Leo |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Known for | Lamb shift Laser Theory Quantum Optics |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Physics (1955) |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | University of Arizona University of Oxford Yale Columbia Stanford |
| Doctoral advisor | J. Robert Oppenheimer |
| Doctoral students | Bernard Feld (1945) Norman Kroll (1948) Theodore Maiman (1955) Marlan Scully (1966) Balázs László Győrffy (1966) |
Willis Lamb, a renowned physicist in the United States, is estimated to have a net worth between $100,000 and $1 million by 2024. With his contributions to the field of physics, Lamb has made significant strides in furthering scientific knowledge. His notable achievements include the Lamb shift, which garnered him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955, and his work on the measurement of magnetic moments of protons and electrons. Throughout his career, Lamb has not only made groundbreaking discoveries but also inspired many aspiring scientists globally.
Lamb was born in Los Angeles, California, United States and attended Los Angeles High School. First admitted in 1930, he received a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1934. For theoretical work on scattering of neutrons by a crystal, guided by J. Robert Oppenheimer, he received the Ph.D. in physics in 1938. Because of limited computational methods available at the time, this research narrowly missed revealing the Mössbauer Effect, 19 years before its recognition by Mössbauer. He worked on nuclear theory, laser physics, and verifying quantum mechanics.
Lamb died on May 15, 2008, at the age of 94, due to complications of a gallstone disorder.
