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In his 1930 book, Dirac took for granted that measurements could be made, but was very vague about what was actually involved.
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I liked quantum mechanics very much. The subject was hard to understand but easy to apply to a large number of interesting problems.
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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.
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Neither Dirac nor von Neumann discussed his measurements in physical terms.
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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.
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Born:
July 12, 1913
Died:
May 15, 2008
(aged 94)
Bio:
Willis Eugene Lamb, Jr. was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955 "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum.
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