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Dr Jeff Tallon and Dr Bob Buckley with some HTSC wire

Dr Jeff Tallon and Dr Bob Buckley with some HTSC wire

Dr Jeff Tallon and Dr Bob Buckley, two of the key scientists behind IRL’s superconductivity research success. In March 1988, Jeff Tallon and Bob Buckley, working at the DSIR laboratories in Wellington (now IRL), correctly identified the structure and composition of a high-temperature superconductivity ceramic compound.

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