Mark Muir Mills

Mark Muir Mills (August 8, 1917 – April 7, 1958) was an American nuclear physicist and a developer of atomic bombs.

During World War II, he served as a physicist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, heading up the solid propellant section.

He and his colleagues made valuable contributions in the field of nuclear reactor technology.

In 1951 he became technical director at Project SQUID at Princeton University, where basic research was performed in aircraft propulsion.

In 1958 he took a leave of absence to become deputy director of the Livermore radiation laboratory at the University of California.

Dr. Mark Mills drawing diagrams on a blackboard during testimony before the Congressional Joint Atomic Energy Committee hearings on atomic radioactive fallout, 1957.