Robert Mills (physicist)

Robert L. Mills ( born April 15, 1927 in Englewood, New Jersey; † 27 October 1999) was an American physicist who specialized in, among other things on the quantum field theory.

Mills attended Columbia University from 1944 to 1948, while in the Coast Guard he was on duty at the same time. In 1948, he won the Putnam competition ( a respected math competition in the U.S.). He also distinguished himself in further studies at Cambridge in the Tripos from. There he received his master's degree and then a doctorate in 1955 at Norman Kroll at Columbia University. In 1956 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study. From 1956 until his retirement in 1995 he was professor of physics at Ohio State University.

Together with Chen Ning Yang he suggested in 1954 at Brookhaven National Laboratory, a theory describing the strong interaction before, the so-called Yang-Mills theory. They received the 1980 Rumford Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences awarded.

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