Robert Retherford

Robert Curtis Retherford
Born 1912
Died 1981
Citizenship United States
Fields Physics
Institutions Columbia University
Alma mater Columbia University
Doctoral advisor Willis Lamb
Known for Lamb shift

Robert Curtis Retherford (1912 – 1981) was an American physicist. He was a graduate student of Willis Lamb at Columbia Radiation Laboratory and both performed the famous experiment revealing Lamb shift in the fine structure of hydrogen, a decisive experimental step toward a new understanding of quantum electrodynamics.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Schweber, Silvan (1994). "Chapter 5". QED and the Men Who Did it: Dyson, Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga. Princeton University Press. p. 215. ISBN 978-0691033273.

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