Michael Crowley-Milling

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.

[citation needed] In 1935 he went up to St John’s College, Cambridge, where he read for the Mechanical Sciences - Electrical Engineering Tripos, graduating with honours in 1938 and proceeding to the MA five years later.

[1] During the war he worked on Microwave Radar, initially as a junior member of the team, at Malvern, developing that technology under Robert Watson-Watt.

His brother Denis, who started with the same school background, was a war hero (he was Douglas Bader’s #2 in the Battle of Britain) and rose through the ranks of the RAF to become an Air Chief Marshal.

His great hobby was the refurbishment of a 1931 Alfa Romeo car used in the Monza Rally, which he had received as a 21st birthday present from his father.