# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-callaghan
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:58:08.008Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-callaghan"
name: "Paul Callaghan"
slug: "paul-callaghan"
description: "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 the position of Alan MacDiarmid Professor of Physical Sciences and was President of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance."
tagline: "New Zealand physicist (1947–2012)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_Callaghan_2001_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "New Zealand"
  isoCode: "NZ"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1947-08-19"
deathDate: "2012-03-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Paul Callaghan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paul Callaghan"
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    title: "Paul Callaghan"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump