John Millener

David John Millener (born 2 May 1944) is a New Zealand physicist and former cricketer. He played 26 matches of first-class cricket for 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 (D.Phil.) 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. He has contributed more than 80 articles to scientific journals. He represented the United States in the 1982 ICC Trophy in England. His most successful first-class match was Oxford University's victory over D. H. Robins' XI in 1969, when he took 3 for 41 and 4 for 97.