Once again quantum electrodynamics, which has already earned itself the description “the most successful dynamical theory in all of physics,” comes under close scrutiny as further refinements in experimental technique provide data sufficiently precise to test this highly respected theory. Hans Dehmelt (University of Washington) reported at the Chicago meeting of the American Physical Society last month on measurements made in collaboration with Robert Van Dyck Jr and Paul Schwinberg of the magnetic moment anomaly of the electron. Brief notes on the experimental method had appeared earlier in Nature; a more extensive paper on the new measurement is in Physical Review Letters.
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