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Robert Retherford

American physicist (1912–1981)

Field	Value
name	Robert Curtis Retherford
birth_date
death_date
citizenship	United States
fields	Physics
workplaces	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. Retherford and Lamb performed the famous experiment (now known as the Lamb–Retherford experiment) revealing Lamb shift in the fine structure of hydrogen, a decisive experimental step toward a new understanding of quantum electrodynamics.

References

(1947). "Fine Structure of the Hydrogen Atom by a Microwave Method". [[Physical Review]].
Schweber, Silvan. (1994). "QED and the Men Who Did it: Dyson, Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga". Princeton University Press.

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