Jeff Tallon (physicist)
Jeffery Lewis Tallon CNZM (born 1948) is a New Zealand physicist specialising in high-temperature superconductors.[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.In 2011 Tallon was awarded the Dan Walls Medal by the New Zealand Institute of Physics.[3] In the 2009 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to science.