NEW ZEALAND:

THE PLACE WHERE TALENT WANTS TO LIVE

PROFESSOR SIR PAUL CALLAGHAN GNZM FRS FRSNZ

2011 NEW ZEALANDER OF THE YEAR

Recorded 6pm Thursday 19 May 2011, in Soundings Theatre, Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington

This lecture issues a challenge to a new generation to lead New Zealand's transformation through the use of science, technology, and an evidence base for decision making. The new economy will improve and not imperil our real wealth: our forests, land, rivers, seas, our fauna and of course our remarkable peoples.

In 2001 Professor 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 and the Rutherford Medal in 2005. He was appointed a Principal Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2006 and in 2007 was recognised by a KEA/NZTE World Class New Zealander Award and the Sir Peter Blake Medal.

He was knighted in 2009. In 2010 he was awarded the Gunther Laukien Prize for Magnetic Resonance and shared the New Zealand Prime Minister's Science Prize. In 2011 he was named Kiwibank "New Zealander of the Year".