Robert C. Retherford

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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

  1. ^ 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 .
  2. ↑ 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]).
personal data
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