Robert Retherford

Robert Curtis Retherford
Born	1912
Died	1981
Citizenship	United States
Fields	Physics
Institutions	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 revealing Lamb shift in the fine structure of hydrogen, a decisive experimental step toward a new understanding of quantum electrodynamics.

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