The Rutherford Medal is the most prestigious award offered by the Royal Society of New Zealand, consisting of a medal and prize of $100,000. It is awarded at the request of the New Zealand Government
Ernest Rutherford, Lord Rutherford of Nelson
Edmund Hillary, c. 1953, autograph removed
Paul Callaghan
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Sir Paul Terence Callaghan 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 th
Rutherford Medal (Royal Society of New Zealand)
…2004: David Penny, theoretical biologist 2005: Paul Callaghan, physicist 2006: Ted Baker, structural biologist…
Callaghan in 2001
Callaghan's investiture as a Knight Grand Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit by the governor-general, Sir Anand Satyanand, at Old St Paul's, Wellington, on 14 August 2009