RUN RUN SHAW DISTINGUISHED LECTURER
"INTERPRETATION OF NON-RELATIVISTIC QUANTUM MECHANICS"
APRIL 2, 2002 UNIVERSITY AT STONY BROOK
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The career of Willis Lamb Jr. defies the categorization of theorist and
experimentalist. His celebrated precision measurement of the splitting
of energy levels in hydrogen turned the sword of wartime radar research
into a plowshare of fundamental science. The Lamb shift, announced at
the historic conference held at Shelter Island in 1947, established the
range of applicability of the Dirac theory of the electron, served as a
key inspiration in the development of quantum field theory, and helped
issue in an era that continues to this day. Dr. Lamb^Rs theoretical work
includes fundamental contributions to the theory of atomic spectra, of
masers and lasers, of the Mossbauer effect, and of measurement theory in
quantum mechanics. A collection of his papers, The Interpretation of
Quantum Mechanics, was published in 2000.
A native of California, Dr. Lamb received his Ph.D from the University of California at Berkeley in 1938, for nuclear studies, with the supervision of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Dr. Lamb held professorships at Columbia and Stanford, and was Wykeham Professor of Physics at Oxford and J. Willard Gibbs Professor of Physics at Yale. Since 1974, Dr. Lamb has been at the University of Arizona, where he is currently Regents Professor. His numerous awards include the Nobel Prize (1955), the Rumford Premium of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Einstein Medal of the Society for Optical and Quantum Electronics and, in 2000, the National Medal of Science. No stranger to Long Island, Dr. Lamb and his wife for many years maintained a vacation home on the North Shore of Fire Island. |
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