Awards & Winners

Robert Mills

Date of Birth 15-April-1927
Place of Birth Englewood
(Bergen County, New Jersey, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Physicist
Robert Laurence Mills was a physicist, specializing in quantum field theory, the theory of alloys, and many-body theory. While sharing an office at Brookhaven National Laboratory, in 1954, Chen Ning Yang and Mills proposed a tensor equation for what are now called Yang–Mills fields. This equation reduces to Maxwell's equations as a special case; see gauge theory.

Awards by Robert Mills

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1980


Rumford Prize
(For development of a generalized gauge invariant field theory.)