Gregorio Millán Barbany

Gregorio Millán Barbany (4 April 1919, Barcelona – 26 November 2004, Madrid) was an aeronautical engineer and professor at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Aeronautics (ETSI Aeronáuticos, Higher Technical School of Aeronautical Engineers) of the Technical University of Madrid (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, UPM).

Biography After completing his baccalaureate studies at Molina de Aragón in the Province of Guadalajara and at Madrid, he matriculated at Madrid's Military Academy of Aeronautical Engineers, where in 1945 he finished his doctoral studies and won an award for his doctoral dissertation. He held, from 1945 to 1951, the chair of theoretical aerodynamics at the Military Academy of Aeronautical Engineers and, from 1951 to 1957, the chair of fluid mechanics and aerodynamics at the ETSI Aeronáuticos. Under the auspices of the US Department of Agriculture, Millán studied prevention of forest fires.

In 1958, the Combustion Group received the “Francisco Franco” prize for scientific research for its work on combustion. In 1961 he was elected a member of the Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales (Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences). In 1999 he received the AENA Foundation Award for his entire career in the field of aeronautics.

In 1948 Millán married Carmen de la Torre Bernal. They had a daughter Marta and a son Teodoro, named after Gregorio Millán's teacher Theodore von Kármán.