Residence New Zealand Name Jeffery Tallon | ||
Institutions Victoria University of Wellington
Callaghan Innovation Thesis Premelting and the Machanisms of Melting in the Alkali Halides (1976) Alma mater Victoria University of Wellington Notable awards Hector Memorial Medal, New Zealand Order of Merit Institution Victoria University of Wellington, Callaghan Innovation | ||
Doctoral advisor William Robinson | ||
Jeffery Lewis "Jeff" Tallon CNZM (born 1948) is a New Zealand physicist specialising in high-temperature superconductors.
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Early life and education
Born in 1948, Tallon was educated at Mount Albert Grammar School in Auckland from 1962 to 1966. 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.
Academic career
He was awarded a Doctor of Science in 1996. His thesis was titled 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].
Honours
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1993, and in 1998 he won the society's Hector Medal jointly with Paul Callaghan.
In 2002, Tallon was awarded the Rutherford Medal, the highest award in New Zealand science. In the 2009 Queen's Birthday Honours he was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to science.