Mathematician:Robert Laurence Mills

Mathematician

American physicist, specializing in quantum field theory, the theory of alloys, and many-body theory.

Formulated Yang-Mills theory with Yang Chen-Ning.

Nationality

American

History

• Born: April 15, 1927 in Englewood, New Jersey
• Died: October 27, 1999 in East Charleston, Vermont

Theorems and Definitions

• With Yang Chen-Ning:
  • Yang-Mills Field
  • Yang-Mills Theory

Results named for Robert Laurence Mills can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Robert Laurence Mills can be found here.

Publications

• 1954: Conservation of Isotopic Spin and Isotopic Gauge Invariance (Phys. Rev. Vol. 96, no. 1: pp. 191 – 195) (with C.N. Yang)
• 1966: Treatment of Overlapping Divergences in the Photon Self-Energy Function (Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement Vol. 37: p. 507) (with C.N. Yang)