Willis Eugene Lamb citations

Willis Eugene Lamb, Junior est un physicien américain. Il a reçu la moitié du prix Nobel de physique de 1955 « pour ses découvertes concernant la structure fine du spectre de l'hydrogène » . Wikipedia  

✵ 12. juillet 1913 – 15. mai 2008
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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.”

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.”

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.

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

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

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