Robert L. Mills
Robert L. Mills (born April 15, 1927 in Englewood , New Jersey , † October 27, 1999 ) was an American physicist who specialized, among other things, in quantum field theory .
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Mills attended Columbia University from 1944 to 1948 while serving in the Coast Guard . In 1948 he won the prestigious William Lowell Putnam Competition . He also distinguished himself in the Tripos during further studies in Cambridge . There he made his master’s degree and then did his doctorate in 1955 with 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 proposed a theory for describing the strong interaction in 1954 at the Brookhaven National Laboratory , the so-called Yang-Mills theory . They received in 1980 the Rumford Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences awarded.
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| SURNAME | Mills, Robert L. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 15, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Englewood , New Jersey |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 27, 1999 |