As per our current Database, Willis Lamb has been died on May 15, 2008(2008-05-15) (aged 94)\nTucson, Arizona, U.S..
When Willis Lamb die, Willis Lamb was 94 years old.
| Popular As | Willis Lamb |
| Occupation | Scientists |
| Age | 94 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Leo |
| Born | July 12, 1913 (Los Angeles, California, U.S., United States) |
| Birthday | July 12 |
| Town/City | Los Angeles, California, U.S., United States |
| Nationality | United States |
Willis Lamb’s zodiac sign is Leo. According to astrologers, people born under the sign of Leo are natural born leaders. They are dramatic, creative, self-confident, dominant and extremely difficult to resist, able to achieve anything they want to in any area of life they commit to. There is a specific strength to a Leo and their "king of the jungle" status. Leo often has many friends for they are generous and loyal. Self-confident and attractive, this is a Sun sign capable of uniting different groups of people and leading them as one towards a shared cause, and their healthy sense of humor makes collaboration with other people even easier.
Willis Lamb was born in the Year of the Ox. Another of the powerful Chinese Zodiac signs, the Ox is steadfast, solid, a goal-oriented leader, detail-oriented, hard-working, stubborn, serious and introverted but can feel lonely and insecure. Takes comfort in friends and family and is a reliable, protective and strong companion. Compatible with Snake or Rooster.
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.
In 1939 Lamb married his first wife, Ursula Schaefer, a German student, who became a distinguished Historian of Latin America. After her death in 1996 he married Physicist Bruria Kaufman in 1996, whom he later divorced. In 2008 he married Elsie Wattson.
Lamb was the Wykeham Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford from 1956 to 1962, and also taught at Yale, Columbia, Stanford and the University of Arizona. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1963.
Lamb died on May 15, 2008, at the age of 94, due to complications of a gallstone disorder.
