“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.”

—  Willis Lamb

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]

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American Physicist 1913–2008

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