Robert Retherford
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Robert Curtis Retherford (1912-1981) was an American physicist. He was a graduate student of Willis Lamb at Columbia Radiation Laboratory.
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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 revealing Lamb shift in the fine structure of hydrogen, a decisive experimental step toward a new understanding of quantum electrodynamics.
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deceased
Dates
Lived 1912 to 1981 · aged 69
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