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Full name | David John Millener |
Born | Auckland, New Zealand | 2 May 1944
Source: Cricinfo, 18 June 2016 |
David John Millener (born 2 May 1944) is a New Zealand physicist and former cricketer. He played first-class cricket for Auckland and Oxford University Cricket Club between 1964 and 1970. [1]
Millener studied at the University of Auckland, then won a Rhodes Scholarship to study at St Catherine's College, Oxford, [2] where he gained a doctorate (D.Phil.) in physics with a thesis entitled "Shell Model Studies in Light Nuclei". [3] He moved to work at the Brookhaven National Laboratory at Upton, New York, where he played for the Brookhaven cricket team. [4]
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