From where did Willis Lamb receive his Nobel Prize?
University of Arizona
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Institute of Physics
Oxford University
Answer
Willis Lamb received his Nobel Prize in physics from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1955 for his discovery of the Lamb shift, a small change in the energy levels of electrons in atoms. The Lamb shift was the first direct evidence of the existence of the quantum vacuum, and it helped to confirm Theory of quantum electrodynamics.
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