= Shelter Island Conference
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Sponsored by <National Academy of Sciences>, located in <Long Island>.
Some photos at: http://www.nasonline.org/about-nas/history/archives/milestones-in-NAS-history/shelter-island-conference-photos.html on the website of <National Academy of Sciences>, therefore canon.
This is where <Isidor Rabi> exposed experiments carried out on the <anomalous magnetic dipole moment> and <Willis Lamb> presented his work on the <Lamb shift>.
It was a very private and intimate conference, that gathered the best physicists of the area, one is reminded of the style of the <Solvay Conference>.
<QED and the men who made it: Dyson, Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga by Silvan Schweber (1994)> chapter 4.1 this conference was soon compared to the <First Solvay Conference (1911)>, which set in motion the development of <non-relativistic quantum mechanics>.
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