New Zealand physicist
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 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
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
^ "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 .
^ 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
New Zealand Science and Technology Gold Medal Rutherford Medal
Recipients of the
Hector Medal of the Royal Society of New Zealand
International National Academics