Jeff Tallon (physicist)

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Jeff Tallon
CNZM
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Investiture of Jeff Tallon as CNZM, 2009
Born
Jeffery Lewis Tallon

(1948-12-18) 18 December 1948 (age 75)
Hamilton, New Zealand
Alma mater Victoria University of Wellington
Known for Superconductivity research
Awards Hector Medal (1998)
Rutherford Medal (2002)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
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]

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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 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

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

Investiture of Tallon as a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit by the governor-general, Sir Anand Satyanand, at Premier House on 2 September 2009 Jeff Tallon CNZM investiture.jpg
Investiture of Tallon as a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit by the governor-general, Sir Anand Satyanand, at Premier House on 2 September 2009

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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References

  1. ↑ "Jeff Tallon". Royal Society of New Zealand. 2012. Archived from the original on 17 December 2014. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
  2. 1 2 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.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 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.
  4. ↑ "Congratulations" (PDF). Mount Albert Grammar School Quarterly. 5 (1): 18. 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 November 2014. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ Halton, Brian (2014). "Chemistry at Victoria the Wellington University" (PDF). Victoria University of Wellington. p. 148. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
  7. ↑ 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 .
  8. ↑ 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.[ permanent dead link ]
  9. ↑ "The Academy: S–U". Royal Society of New Zealand. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
  10. ↑ "Hector Medal". Royal Society of New Zealand. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
  11. ↑ "Rutherford Medal". Royal Society of New Zealand. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
  12. ↑ "NZIP Award Recipients – New Zealand Institute of Physics" . Retrieved 16 March 2023.
  13. ↑ "Queen's Birthday honours list 2009". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 1 June 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2020.


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