Michael Crowley-Milling

Michael Crowley-Milling in the control room of the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron.

Michael Crowley-Milling (7 May 1917 [1] – 2012), known as Michael Crowley Crowley-Milling from 1947,[2] CMG,[3] MA, C Eng, FIEE, was an engineering project manager, who did innovative work in accelerator design and large-scale computer control, and rose in the ranks of CERN to become first a division head in 1977[4] and then a member of the CERN directorate in 1980.[5] He was awarded the Glazebrook Medal[6] of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and was honoured by the Royal Society, for his achievements, by being asked to give their Clifford Paterson Lecture in 1982. He is perhaps best known as the person who helped to invent the world's first computer touchscreens.[7] He was the older brother of Sir Denis Crowley-Milling.[8]

  1. ^ Senior Staff Appointments (CERN-1291) (Report). CERN. March 30, 1978. p. Annex II: Curriculum vitae Michael Crowley Crowley-Milling. Retrieved August 30, 2017.
  2. ^ "Michael Crowley Crowley-Milling". The London Gazette (38057): 4060. August 26, 1947. Retrieved September 8, 2017.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference CMG was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Internal Organization of CERN, 1970-1979". CERN Archives. Retrieved August 30, 2017.
  5. ^ "Internal Organization of CERN, 1980-1989". CERN Archives. Retrieved August 30, 2017.
  6. ^ "People and things". CERN Courier. 20 (2): 72–96. Retrieved August 30, 2017.
  7. ^ Crowley-Milling, Michael. "How CERN broke the software barrier". New Scientist. 790–79 (1071): 790–791.
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference telegraph was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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