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Robert Curtis Retherford

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An experimental atomic physicist who, with Willis Eugene Lamb Jr., measured the Lamb shift in 1947. Their microwave method distinguished hydrogen levels that the simplest relativistic theory placed at the same energy. The experiment made a small spectral discrepancy into a precise test, helping motivate improved calculations in quantum electrodynamics.[ref]
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  • Fine Structure of the Hydrogen Atom by a Microwave Method by Willis Eugene Lamb Jr. and Robert Curtis Retherford

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