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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

Willis E. Lamb, Jr.

Title:

Regents Professor

Affiliation:

University of Arizona

Optical Sciences Center

Tuscon,Arizona  USA

Gender:

Male

Year Deceased:

2008

Award Discipline:

Physical Sciences

Award Year:

2000

Citation:

"For his towering contributions to classical and quantum theories of laser radiation and quantum optics, and to the proper interpretation of quantum mechanics."

Presented by Dr. Neal Lane, Assistant to the President for Science & Technology, at a black-tie dinner awards ceremony at the National Building Museum, Washington, DC, Friday, December 1, 2000. Award accepted by his wife, Bruria Kaufman.

Nobel Laureate:

Physics, 1955

 

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