Researching Willis Lamb
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 15798 people with the Lamb surname? In that year Lamb was ranked number 244 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Willis means "Son of WILLIAM" and is of Teutonic origin.
Records of Willis Lamb on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Willis Lamb and the Lamb Family History
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| Did you know that there are currently 18314 people with the Lamb surname in the UK? Lamb is now ranked number 293 for popularity in the UK. |
Lamb Family History Databases
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| Did you know that there are currently 72918 people with the Lamb surname in the USA? Lamb is ranked number 133 for popularity in the USA. |
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Some Famous People called Willis Lamb
Willis Lamb
Willis Eugene Lamb Jr. ( July 12, 1913 – May 15, 2008) was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955 "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum." The Nobel Committee that year awarded half the prize to Lamb and the other half to Polykarp Kusch, who won "for his precision determination of the magnetic moment of the electron." Lamb was able to determine precisely a surprising shift in electron energies in a hydrogen atom (see Lamb shift). Lamb was a professor at the University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences.
Source: Willis Lamb, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Lamb
Family names can get corrupted over time, particularly where literacy was not as good. The following list contains some names that have similar sounds so you may want to also look at one or two of the more likely possibilites.
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