Robert Mills (physicist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Robert Mills (physicist)

American physicist

Date of Birth: 15-Apr-1928

Place of Birth: Englewood, New Jersey, United States

Date of Death: 27-Oct-1999

Profession: physicist, theoretical physicist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Robert Laurence Mills (April 15, 1927 – October 27, 1999) was an American 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 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): ? µ F µ ? + 2 ? ( b µ × F µ ? ) = J ? {\displaystyle \partial _{\mu }F^{\mu \nu }+2\epsilon (b_{\mu }\times F^{\mu \nu })=J^{\nu }} .