Jeff Tallon (physicist)
Jeff Tallon CNZM | |
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Born | Jeffery Lewis Tallon 18 December 1948 Hamilton, New Zealand |
Alma mater | Victoria University of Wellington |
Known for | Superconductivity research |
Awards | Hector Medal (1998) Rutherford Medal (2002) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | Victoria University of Wellington Callaghan Innovation |
Thesis | Premelting and the mechanisms of melting in the alkali halides (1976) |
Doctoral advisor | Stuart Smedley Bill Robinson |
Jeffery Lewis Tallon CNZM (born 1948) is a New Zealand physicist specialising in high-temperature superconductors.[1]
Early life and education[]
Tallon was born in Hamilton on 17 December 1948, the son of Phyllis Blanche Tallon (née Currie) and George Frederick Tallon.[2][3] He was educated at Mount Albert Grammar School in Auckland from 1962 to 1966.[3][4] After a BSc(Hons) at the University of Auckland, he undertook doctoral studies at Victoria University of Wellington under Stuart Smedley and Bill Robinson, completing his PhD in chemistry in 1976.[5]
In 1971, Tallon married Mary Elaine Turner, and the couple went on to have three children.[2][3]
Academic career[]
He was awarded a Doctor of Science by Victoria University of Wellington in 1996, on the basis of a selection of published papers.[6]
Honours and awards[]
In 1990, Tallon was awarded the Michaelis Medal for physics research.[3] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1993,[7] and in 1998 he won the society's Hector Medal jointly with Paul Callaghan.[8] In 2002, Tallon was awarded the Rutherford Medal,[9] the highest award in New Zealand science.
In 1990, Tallon received the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal.[3] In the 2009 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to science.[10]
Selected works[]
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References[]
- ^ "Jeff Tallon". Royal Society of New Zealand. 2012. Archived from the original on 17 December 2014. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
- ^ a b Taylor, Alister; Coddington, Deborah (1994). Honoured by the Queen – New Zealand. Auckland: New Zealand Who's Who Aotearoa. p. 358. ISBN 0-908578-34-2.
- ^ a b c d e Taylor, Alister, ed. (2001). "New Zealand Who's Who Aotearoa 2001". New Zealand Who's Who, Aotearoa. Auckland: Alister Taylor Publishers: 852. ISSN 1172-9813.
- ^ "Congratulations" (PDF). Mount Albert Grammar School Quarterly. 5 (1): 18. 2010. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
- ^ Halton, Brian (2014). "Chemistry at Victoria the Wellington University" (PDF). Victoria University of Wellington. p. 148. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
- ^ Tallon, Jeffery Lewis (1996). Selected publications of Jefferey Lewis Tallon: a thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Science [in Chemistry] (Thesis). Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
- ^ "The Academy: S–U". Royal Society of New Zealand. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
- ^ "Hector Medal". Royal Society of New Zealand. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
- ^ "Rutherford Medal". Royal Society of New Zealand. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
- ^ "Queen's Birthday honours list 2009". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 1 June 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
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