Robert Mills (physicist)

:For other uses, see Robert Mills (disambiguation).

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Robert L. Mills (April 15, 1927 - October 27, 1999) 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 Robert 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:

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April 15 - 1927 - October 27 - 1999 - Physicist - Quantum field theory - Alloy - Many-body theory - Brookhaven National Laboratory - 1954 - Chen Ning Yang - Tensor - Yang-Mills field - Maxwell's Equations - Gauge theory

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partial_{mu}F^{mu u} + 2 epsilon ( b_mu imes F^{mu u} ) = J^ u

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Mills was born in Englewood, New Jersey, and graduated from George School. He studied at Columbia College, 1944-1948, while on leave from the Coast Guard. Mills demonstrated his mathematical ability by winning the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition in 1948, and by receiving first-class honors in the Tripos. He earned a master's degree from Cambridge, and a Ph.D.in Physics under Norman Kroll, from Columbia in 1955. After a year at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, Mills was a professor of Physics at Ohio State University from 1956 to his retirement in 1995.

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Englewood - New Jersey - Columbia College - William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition - Cambridge - Norman Kroll - Institute for Advanced Study - Princeton - Ohio State University

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Mills and Yang shared the 1980 Rumford Premium Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for their "development of a generalized gauge invariant field theory" in 1954.

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