He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1965, jointly with Schwinger and Tomonoga:... for fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles.
Hamming din nagtrabaho sa mga de-numerong analysis, pagsasama ng kaugalian equation, at ang Hamming multo window na kung saan ay marami na ginagamit sa mga kuwenta para sa smoothing data bago Fourier analysing ito.