Citizenship United States Died 1981 Institution Columbia University Name Robert Retherford Doctoral advisor Willis Lamb | Known for Lamb shift Fields Physics Institutions Columbia University Alma mater Columbia University | |
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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