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“In fact, there really is not a new law of nature. It was all in the theory to begin with but nobody worked it out.”

relating his experimental confirmation of the fine structure spectrum of hydrogen, as reported by [Jagdish Mehra, The historical development of quantum theory, Springer, 2001, 0387950869, 1037]

“I liked quantum mechanics very much. The subject was hard to understand but easy to apply to a large number of interesting problems.”

Willis Lamb

W. E. Lamb, Super classical quantum mechanics: the best interpretation of non relativistic quantum mechanics, Am. J. Phys. 69, 413-422 (2001).

“In his 1930 book, Dirac took for granted that measurements could be made, but was very vague about what was actually involved.”

Willis Lamb

W. E. Lamb, Sequential measurements in quantum mechanics, in Quantum Measurements and Chaos, E. R. Pike and S. Sarkar, eds. (Plenum, New York, 1987) pp. 183-193.

“At the first of the 1960's Rochester Coherence Conferences, I suggested that a license be required for use of the word photon, and offered to give such license to properly qualified people.”

Willis Lamb

W. E. Lamb, Anti-photon, Appl. Phys. B 60, 77-84 (1995).

“Neither Dirac nor von Neumann discussed his measurements in physical terms.”

Willis Lamb

W. E. Lamb, Classical measurements on a quantum mechanical system, Nuclear Phys. B 6, 197-201 (1989).