Robert Retherford

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 (now known as the Lamb–Retherford experiment) revealing Lamb shift in the fine structure of hydrogen, a decisive experimental step toward a new understanding of quantum electrodynamics.^[1][2]

Robert Curtis Retherford
Born	1912 (1912)
Died	1981 (aged 68–69)
Citizenship	United States
Alma mater	Columbia University
Known for	Lamb shift
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Columbia University
Doctoral advisor	Willis Lamb

See also

• Quantum electrodynamics
• Lamb shift