List of New Zealand scientists

This page is a list of New Zealand scientists with articles on Wikipedia and is necessarily incomplete.

Alexander Aitken - mathematician/statistician, writer, mental calculator, musician
Sir Brian Barratt-Boyes - heart surgeon
Gary Bold - physicist
Leonard Cockayne - botanist
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
Sir Archie McIndoe - pioneer plastic surgeon
Alan G MacDiarmid - co-winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
John Edward Morton - biologist, theologian
Frank Newhook - plant pathologist
Stephen Parke - theoretical physicist
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
Jim Salinger - Climate scientist
David Allan Spence - mathematician
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
David Wratt - Chief Climate Scientist, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)
John Stuart Yeates - botanist

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