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Sir Paul Terence Callaghan (19 August 1947 – 24 March 2012) was a New Zealand physicist who, as the founding director of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology at Victoria University of Wellington, held the position of Alan MacDiarmid Professor of Physical Sciences and was President of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance.〔(International Society for Magnetic Resonance website )〕 ==Biography== Paul Callaghan was born 19 August 1947, the son of Mavis and Ernest Callaghan. He had an older brother Jim, older sister Jeanine, and younger sister Mary. His maternal grandparents were Agnes and Francis Hogg. A native of Whanganui, Callaghan attended Wanganui Technical College. He took his first degree in physics at Victoria University of Wellington and subsequently earned a DPhil degree at the University of Oxford, working in low temperature physics. On his return to New Zealand in 1974, he took up a lecturing position at Massey University, where he began researching the applications of magnetic resonance to the study of soft matter. He was made Professor of Physics in 1984, and was appointed Alan MacDiarmid Professor of Physical Sciences in 2001. The following year, as its founding director, he helped establish the multi-university MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology. Callaghan was President of the Academy Council of the Royal Society of New Zealand (RSNZ), and published over 240 articles in scientific journals, as well as the books ''Principles of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Microscopy'' in 1994 and ''Translational Dynamics and Magnetic Resonance'' in 2011. He was a founding director and shareholder of Magritek,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=MRI & NMR for everyone, everywhere )〕 a technology company based in Wellington that sells nuclear magnetic resonance and MRI instruments. He was a regular public speaker on science matters and, in 2007, one of his radio series appeared in book form, ''As Far as We Know: Conversations about Science, Life and the Universe''. A 2009 book, ''Wool to Weta: Transforming New Zealand's Culture and Economy'', dealt with the potential for science and technology entrepreneurialism to diversify New Zealand's economy. He was the presenter of a concurrent documentary, ''Beyond the Farm and the Themepark'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Beyond the Farm and Theme Park | HotScience )〕 which deals with the same issues. In 2001 Callaghan became the 36th New Zealander to be made a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. He was awarded the Ampere Prize in 2004 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Awards )〕 and the RSNZ's Rutherford Medal in 2005. He was appointed a Principal Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2006 and in 2007 was recognised with a World Class New Zealander Award〔(World Class New Zealand Award )〕 and the Sir Peter Blake Medal.〔(Sir Peter Blake Trust )〕 He was awarded a two-year James Cook Research Fellowship by the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2008. He was knighted on 14 August 2009.〔(Sir Paul Callaghan )〕 In 2010 he was awarded the Günther Laukien Prize for Magnetic Resonance〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Laukien Nominations )〕 and shared the New Zealand Prime Minister's Science Prize. In 2011 he was named Kiwibank's New Zealander of the Year and later that year elected an Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Callaghan died on 24 March 2012, aged 64, after a long battle with colon cancer. He was survived by his second wife, Miang Lim, and two children, Catherine and Chris.〔(Sir Paul Callaghan passes away )〕 After his death, Callaghan was again recognised with a World Class New Zealand award, becoming the Supreme winner in May 2012 〔(World Class New Zealand 2012 Winners )〕 The New Zealand Crown Entity, Callaghan Innovation, formed in February 2013, was named after him.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Callaghan Innovation )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paul Callaghan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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