Robert C. Retherford
Robert Curtis Retherford ( 1912 - 1981 ) was an American physicist . He was a PhD student in Willis Lamb's research group at the Comlumbia Radiation Laboratory . His best-known work, which he carried out in collaboration with Willis Lamb, is an experiment that shows the Lamb shift in the fine structure of hydrogen . This was a crucial advance in understanding quantum electrodynamics .
Individual evidence
- ^ Willis E. Lamb, Robert C. Retherford: Fine Structure of the Hydrogen Atom by a Microwave Method . In: Physical Review . tape 72 , no. 3 , August 1, 1947, p. 241-243 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRev.72.241 .
- ↑ Internet Archive: QED and the men who made it: Dyson, Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga . Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 1994 ( archive.org [accessed June 22, 2020]).
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SURNAME | Retherford, Robert C. |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Retherford, Robert Curtis (full name); Retherford, Robert |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1912 |
DATE OF DEATH | 1981 |