Mills and Yang shared the 1980 Rumford Premium Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for their "development of a generalized gauge invariant field theory" in 1954.
Mills e Yang gañaron no 1980 o 'Rumford Premium Prize' da Academia Americana de artes e Ciencias (AAAS) polo seu "desenvolvemento dunha teoría xeralizada de campo gauge invariante" no 1954.