List of New Zealand scientists

The following is a list of New Zealand scientists.

Alexander Aitken - mathematician/statistician, writer, mental calculator, musician
Sir Brian Barratt-Boyes - heart surgeon
Leslie Comrie - computer pioneer
G. H. Cunningham - "father" of New Zealand mycology
Joan Dingley - mycologist
Doug Dye - plant bacteriologist
Derek Freeman, anthropologist
Charles Gifford - teacher and very successful promoter of astronomy
Sir James Hector - geologist
Diamond Jenness - anthropologist
Vaughan Jones - mathematician, awarded Fields Medal
Edward Kidson - eminent New Zealand scientist, latterly Director of Meteorological Services in New Zealand
Sir Archie McIndoe - pioneer plastic surgeon
Alan G MacDiarmid - co-winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Frank Newhook - plant pathologist
William Pickering - central figure and pioneer of NASA space exploration
Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson - scientist and winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Beatrice Tinsley - astronomer and cosmologist
Sir Julius von Haast - geologist
Robert Webster - discovered the link between human flu and bird flu
Maurice Wilkins - shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his part in elucidating the structure of DNA