American physicist who, with Chen-Ning Yang while both were at Brookhaven National Laboratory, introduced the Yang-Mills gauge theory in 1954. He spent most of his career, from 1956 to his retirement in 1995, in the physics department at Ohio State University.
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BirthplaceEnglewood, New Jersey, United States 1 Death PlaceEast Charleston, Vermont, United States 1 Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionWith Chen-Ning Yang, introduced Yang-Mills gauge theory in 1954, the framework underlying the Clay Mathematics Institute's Yang-Mills existence and mass gap Millennium Prize problem. 2 Notable WorkConservation of Isotopic Spin and Isotopic Gauge Invariance, with Chen-Ning Yang (Physical Review, October 1954) 2 Connections
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Co-devised Yang-Mills gauge theory in 1953, published jointly as Conservation of Isotopic Spin and Isotopic Gauge Invariance.
Source Clay Mathematics Institute
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Co-originated Yang-Mills gauge theory, the mathematical framework underlying the standard model of particle physics.
Source Physics Today, Robert L. Mills
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1. Physics Today, Robert L. Mills
Physics Today, American Institute of PhysicsLead paragraph, birth and death notice
Born on 15 April 1927 in Englewood, New Jersey, Robert L. Mills was a physicist who specialized in quantum field theory, the theory of alloys, and many-body theory. ... Mills died in 1999 at age 72.
In Branch: Mathematical Physics, Career section, Yang-Mills collaboration
In 1953 as a research associate at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Mills coauthored with Chen Ning Yang a landmark scientific paper in which they proposed the Yang-Mills theory, a generalization of Maxwell's equations that seeks to describe the behavior of elementary particles and explain the electromagnetic and nuclear forces.
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Clay Mathematics Institutehttps://www.claymath.org/millennium/yang-mills-the-maths-gap/Quote, https://www.claymath.org/millennium/yang-mills-the-maths-gap/
Almost half a century ago, Yang and Mills introduced a remarkable new framework to describe elementary particles using structures that also occur in geometry.
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