Bill Buckley’s imprint is somewhere inside almost every computer, smartphone and digital appliance you own. He is the winner of this year’s Manufacturing, Design and Innovation category in the World Class New Zealand Awards, and sole owner of Buckley Systems – the maker of the electromagnets used to create around 90 percent of the world’s silicon chips. He also dominates the global market for the precision electromagnets used in everything from carbon dating to cancer therapy. Renowned in the hi-tech world as laid-back engineering genius, he’s known to many Kiwis only as the devoted promoter and benefactor of the Western Springs speedway track. M
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