Fine Structure of the Hydrogen Atom

by a Microwave Method by Willis E. Lamb, Robert C. Retherford

$1,500 · Offered by Manhattan Rare Books

First edition

FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of the discovery of the Lamb shift “Shortly after World War II, Lamb began his work to check the accuracy of the predictions of Paul Dirac as they related to the energy levels and spectral lines of hydrogen. Dirac’s quantum mechanical theory predicted that the hydrogen atom had two possible energy states with equal energies. Lamb’s accurate work using radiofrequency resonance techniques, reported in

• Binding: Wrappers

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.