Jeff Tallon (physicist)
Jeffery Lewis Tallon CNZM (born 1948) is a New Zealand physicist specialising in high-temperature superconductors.[1]
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) |
| 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 |
Early life and education edit
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]
Academic career edit
He was awarded a Doctor of Science by Victoria University of Wellington in 1996, on the basis of a selection of published papers.[8]
Honours and awards edit
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]
References edit
- ^ . 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.
- ^ Dunsford, Deborah (2016). Mt Albert Then and Now: a History of Mt Albert, Morningside, Kingsland, St Lukes, Sandringham and Owairaka. Auckland: Mount Albert Historical Society. p. 151. ISBN 978-0-473-36016-0. OCLC 964695277. Wikidata Q117189974.
- ^ Halton, Brian (2014). "Chemistry at Victoria the Wellington University" (PDF). Victoria University of Wellington. p. 148. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
- ^ Tallon, Jeffery (1976). Premelting and the Machanisms of Melting in the Alkali Halides (Doctoral thesis). Open Access Repository Victoria University of Wellington, Victoria University of Wellington. doi:10.26686/wgtn.16958908.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "NZIP Award Recipients – New Zealand Institute of Physics". Retrieved 16 March 2023.
- ^ "Queen's Birthday honours list 2009". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 1 June 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
External links edit
- Callaghan Innovation page