Paul Callaghan

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Sir Paul Terence Callaghan GNZM FRS (born August 19, 1947 in Whanganui , New Zealand , † March 24, 2012 in Wellington , New Zealand) was a New Zealand experimental physicist.

Life

Callaghan was born in Whanganui on August 19, 1947. He received his DPhil at the Clarendon Laboratory of Oxford University . In 1974 he returned to New Zealand, where he initially worked as a lecturer at Massey University in Palmerston North . There he was appointed professor in 1984. In 2001 he moved to Victoria University in Wellington. There he was appointed Alan MacDiarmid Professor of Physical Sciences and one year later founded the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology. In 2004 he founded the Magritek company to commercialize the nuclear magnetic resonance technology he invented. Callaghan died of colon cancer on March 24, 2012 in Wellington .

research

Callaghan made significant contributions to nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and tomography . Among other things, he developed a method for measuring the diffusion of liquids in porous media and showed analogies to diffraction methods . He also studied the rheology of polymer melts and complex fluids and developed compact nuclear magnetic resonance instruments that use the earth's magnetic field. Callaghan also became known for several specialist books and for publications on the role of technical innovations in the economic development of New Zealand.

Prizes and awards

Callaghan received the New Zealand Hector Medal in 1998. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2001, three years later he was awarded the Ampere Prize. In 2005 he received the Rutherford Medal and was named Principal Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit - after the reform of the latter order he was knighted as Knight Grand Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2009 . In 2008 he received the James Cook Research Fellowship from the Royal Society of New Zealand , and in 2009 he was made a knight. A year later he received the Günther Laukien Prize and the Prime Minister's Science Prize, and in 2011 he was finally named "New Zealander of the Year".

Fonts

  • Principles of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Microscopy . Oxford University Press, 1994.
  • With Kim Hill: As Far as We Know: Conversations about Science, Life and the Universe . Penguin, 2007.
  • Wool to Weta: Transforming New Zealand's Culture and Economy . Auckland University Press, 2009.
  • Translational Dynamics and Magnetic Resonance: Principles of Pulsed Gradient Spin Echo NMR . Oxford University Press, 2011.
  • With Shaun Hendy: Get off the Grass: Kickstarting New Zealand's Innovation Economy . Auckland University Press, 2013.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Professor Sir Paul Callaghan . March 27, 2012, ISSN  0307-1235 ( telegraph.co.uk [accessed December 15, 2018]).
  2. ^ Rochester Yang Xia Yang Xia Oakland University: Obituary of Paul Callaghan (1947–2012) . In: Physics Today . August 13, 2012, doi : 10.1063 / PT.4.1749 ( scitation.org [accessed December 15, 2018]).
  3. ^ Professor Sir Paul Callaghan: Leading physicist. March 27, 2012, accessed December 15, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Sir Paul Callaghan farewelled in Wellington . In: NZ Herald . March 28, 2012, ISSN  1170-0777 ( nzherald.co.nz [accessed December 15, 2018]).
  5. ^ FO Zelaya, KJ Packer, D. MacGowan, A. Coy, PT Callaghan: Diffraction-like effects in NMR diffusion studies of fluids in porous solids . In: Nature . tape 351 , no. 6326 , June 1991, ISSN  1476-4687 , pp. 467-469 , doi : 10.1038 / 351467a0 ( nature.com [accessed December 15, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Paul T Callaghan: Rheo-NMR: nuclear magnetic resonance and the rheology of complex fluids. (PDF) November 24, 1998, accessed December 15, 2018 .
  7. ↑ PT Callaghan, CD Eccles, and JD Seymour: An earth's field nuclear magnetic resonance apparatus suitable for pulsed gradient spin echo measurements of self-diffusion under Antarctic conditions. Retrieved December 15, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Knights and Dames at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
  9. ↑ Royal Society Te aparangi - List of recipients. Retrieved December 15, 2018 .
  10. ↑ The Prime Minister's Science Prize 2010 | The Prime Minister's Science Prizes. Retrieved December 15, 2018 (UK English).
  11. ↑ Sir Paul Callaghan. Retrieved December 15, 2018 .
  12. ^ The late Paul T. Callaghan: Principles of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Microscopy . Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York 1993, ISBN 978-0-19-853997-1 ( oup.com [accessed December 15, 2018]).
  13. ↑ Wool to Weta: Transforming New Zealand's Culture and Economy - The University of Auckland. Retrieved December 15, 2018 .
  14. ^ Paul T. Callaghan: Translational Dynamics and Magnetic Resonance: Principles of Pulsed Gradient Spin Echo NMR . Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-19-955698-4 ( oup.com [accessed December 15, 2018]).
  15. ↑ Get off the Grass: Kickstarting New Zealand's Innovation Economy by Shaun Hendy & Paul Callaghan - Books - Auckland University Press - The University of Auckland. Retrieved December 15, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Callaghan, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Callaghan, Paul Terence (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand physicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Whanganui, New Zealand
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 2012
Place of death Wellington , New Zealand