Jeff Tallon | |
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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) |
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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]
Tallon was born in Hamilton on 17 December 1948, the son of Phyllis Blanche Tallon (née Currie) and George Frederick Tallon.[2][3] He grew up in Mount Albert, and was educated at Gladstone Primary School, and later Mount Albert Grammar School in Auckland from 1962 to 1966.[3][4][5] 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.[6][7]
In 1971, Tallon married Mary Elaine Turner, and the couple went on to have three children.[2][3]
He was awarded a Doctor of Science by Victoria University of Wellington in 1996, on the basis of a selection of published papers.[8]
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,[9] and in 1998 he won the society's Hector Medal jointly with Paul Callaghan.[10] In 2002, Tallon was awarded the Rutherford Medal,[11] the highest award in New Zealand science. In 2011 Tallon was awarded the Dan Walls Medal by the New Zealand Institute of Physics.[12]
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.[13]
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