John Millener
David John Millener is a New Zealand physicist and former cricketer. He played 26 matches of first-class cricket for Auckland [cricket team|Auckland] and Oxford University between 1964 and 1970. Since 1976 he has lived in the United States, pursuing a career as a nuclear physicist at the Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Education and career
Millener was born in Auckland. His father was a lecturer in botany at the University of Auckland. He attended Auckland Grammar School before going on to the University of Auckland. He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study at St Catherine's College, Oxford, where he gained a doctorate in physics in 1972 with a thesis entitled "Shell Model Studies in Light Nuclei". He stayed on at Oxford as a post-doctoral fellow for three years.He moved to the United States to work at the Brookhaven National Laboratory at Upton, New York, in 1976. He worked there as a physicist until 2013, when he retired from full-time work, retaining the title of guest physicist. He specialised in research in nuclear structure and hyper-nuclear physics. In 1993 the American Physical Society awarded him a Division of Nuclear Physics Fellowship, "For significant contributions to understanding the structure of light nuclei; particularly non-normal parity states and to hyper-nuclear spectroscopy and the application of SU symmetries." He has contributed more than 80 articles to scientific journals.