John Milton Miller

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name = John Milton Miller

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birth_place = Hanover, Pennsylvania
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awards = IEEE Medal of Honor

John Milton Miller was a noted American electrical engineer, best known for discovering the Miller effect and inventing fundamental circuits for quartz crystal oscillators (Miller oscillators).

Miller was born in Hanover, Pennsylvania, and in 1915 received his Ph.D. in physics from Yale University. From 1907-1919 he was a physicist with the National Bureau of Standards, then a radio engineer at the United States Navy's Radio Laboratory (1919-1923) and subsequently at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). From 1925-1936 he led radio receiver research at the Atwater Kent Manufacturing Company, Philadelphia, and from 1936-1940 was assistant head of the research laboratory for the RCA Radiotron Company. In 1940 he returned to NRL where he became superintendent of Radio I Division (1945), associate director of research (1951), and scientific research administrator (1952).

Miller was awarded the Distinguished Civilian Service Award in 1945 for "initiation of the development of a new flexible radio-frequency cable urgently needed in radio and radar equipment which solved a desperate material shortage in the United States during World War II," and the IRE Medal of Honor in 1953 for "his pioneering contributions to our basic knowledge of electron tube theory, of radio instruments and measurements, and of crystal controlled oscillators."

References

* [http://www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/history_center/biography/miller.html IEEE History Center biography]
*John M. Miller, [http://web.mit.edu/klund/www/papers/jmiller.pdf Dependence of the input impedance of a three-electrode vacuum tube upon the load in the plate circuit] , Scientific Papers of the Bureau of Standards, 15(351):367-385, 1920.
*John M. Miller, "Electrical oscillations in antennas and inductance coils", Proc. IRE, vol. 7, pp. 299-326, June 1919.