Milner, Kit (Christopher) (1912–1998)

English-born Australian physicist who pioneered low-temperature physics and was part of the Manhattan Project to develop the atom bomb.

Milner was born in Sheffield and attended Cambridge University. His doctorate there in magnetoresistance of metals at low temperatures was supervised by the Soviet physicist Peter Kapitza, and later New Zealand-born British physicist Ernest Rutherford and English physicist John Cockcroft. In 1944 he was one of five British industrial researchers to work on the Manhattan Project. He moved to Australia in 1951 where he took up a chair of applied physics at the University of New South Wales. He retired in 1976.