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
• Nancy Bertler - Antarctic researcher
• Margaret Bradshaw - Antarctic researcher, palaeontologist
• Margaret Brimble - chemist
• Gary Bold - physicist
• Paul Callaghan - famous for work in magnetic resonance
• Amy Castle - entomologist
• John G. Cleary - computer scientist
• Leonard Cockayne - botanist
• Leslie Comrie - computer pioneer
• G. H. Cunningham - "father" of New Zealand mycology
• Kathleen Curtis - mycologist, plant pathologist, first female fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand
• Joan Dingley - mycologist
• Doug Dye - plant bacteriologist
• Sir Richard Faull - neuroscientist
• Margot Forde - botanist
• Derek Freeman - anthropologist
• Charles Gifford - teacher and very successful promoter of astronomy
• Sir James Hector - geologist
• Barbara Heslop - immunologist
• Diamond Jenness - anthropologist
• Sir Vaughan Jones - mathematician, awarded Fields Medal
• Roy Kerr - proved a solution to Einstein's equations which modelled a spinning black hole
• Alan G MacDiarmid - co-winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Ruth Mason - botanist
• Sir Archie McIndoe - pioneer plastic surgeon
• Pérrine Moncrieff - ornithologist
• John Edward Morton - biologist, theologian
• Wendy Nelson - marine algae expert
• 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
• Mary Sutherland - botanist
• Beatrice Tinsley - astronomer and cosmologist
• Kevin Trenberth - meteorologist and atmospheric scientist
• Ingrid N. Visser - marine biologist known for studying orcas
• Sir Julius von Haast - geologist
• Robert Webster - discovered the link between human flu and bird flu
• Joan Wiffen - paleontologist, discovered first dinosaur fossils in New Zealand
• Siouxsie Wiles - microbiologist
• Maurice Wilkins - shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his part in elucidating the structure of DNA
• Christine Winterbourn - pathologist
• David Wratt - Chief Climate Scientist, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)
• John Stuart Yeates - botanist

Other lists of New Zealand scientists

• Hector Memorial Medal recipients
• Rutherford Medal recipients
• Sciblogs.co.nz
• List of New Zealand women botanists