This page is a list of New Zealand scientists with articles on Wikipedia and is necessarily incomplete.
Helen Anderson – seismonologist, public servant Alexander Aitken – mathematician/statistician, writer, mental calculator, musician
Sir Brian Barratt-Boyes – heart surgeon Peter Barrett – geologist, Antarctic researcher Jacqueline Beggs (born 1962) – New Zealand entomologist and ecologist Patricia Bergquist – zoologist, anatomist Nancy Bertler – Antarctic researcher Rod Bieleski – plant physiologist Gary Bold – physicist Helen Bostock – paleoceanographer Warwick Bowen – experimental physicist Margaret Bradshaw – Antarctic researcher, palaeontologist Margaret Brimble – chemist Alexandra Brewis Slade – anthropologist Bob Brockie – artist, ecologist John C. Butcher – mathematician Walter Buller – naturalist Carolyn Burns – freshwater ecologist Sir Paul Callaghan – famous for work in magnetic resonance Wendy Campbell-Purdie – known for greening the Sahara Desert Howard Carmichael – theoretical physicist doing quantum optics Garth Carnaby – physicist Janet Carter – professor and Dean of Science at the University of Canterbury Amy Castle – entomologist Ann Chapman – limnologist Thomas Frederic Cheeseman – botanist, naturalist Charles Chilton – zoologist Helen Shearburn Clark (Rotman) – marine zoologist John G. Cleary – computer scientist Leonard Cockayne – botanist Naomi Cogger - epidemiologist Leslie Comrie – computer pioneer Lucy Cranwell – botanist G. H. Cunningham – "father" of New Zealand mycology Kathleen Curtis – mycologist, plant pathologist, first female fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand Michelle Dickinson – nanotechnologist Joan Dingley – mycologist John Newton Dodd – optical physicist Richard Dowden – radio and space physicist Peter David Drummond – quantum optics specialist Doug Dye – plant bacteriologist Sir Richard Faull – neuroscientist Charles Fleming – ornithologist, palaeontologist Margot Forde – botanist Professor Elizabeth Franz – neuroscientist Derek Freeman – anthropologist Crispin Gardiner – physicist specialising in Quantum Optics Nicola Gaston – chemist Juliet Gerrard – biochemist and Prime Minister's chief science advisor Charles Gifford – teacher and promoter of astronomy Sir Peter David Gluckman – medical science Janet Grieve – biological oceanographer Timothy Haskell – Antarctic physicist Robert Cecil Hayes – seismologist Ron Heath - physical oceanographer Sir James Hector – geologist Heather Hendrickson – microbiologist Barbara Heslop – immunologist Helen Heslop – immunotherapist, hematologist Merilyn Hibma - viral immunologist Sue Huang - virologist Stephanie Hughes – neurobiologist Patricia Hunt – chemist Vicki Hyde – sceptic, psychologist Harold John Finlay – palaeontologist, malacologist Christina Hulbe – Antarctic glaciologists Frederick Hutton – naturalist Julian Jack - physiologist Diamond Jenness – anthropologist Sir Vaughan Jones – mathematician, awarded Fields Medal Sir Neville Jordan – engineer, businessman, philanthropist Mike Joy – freshwater ecologist, science communicator Roy Kerr – proved a solution to Einstein's equations which modelled a spinning black hole Pat Langhorne – Antarctic physicist Libby Liggins – Marine ecologist Alan G MacDiarmid – co-winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Bruce Marshall – taxonomist, malacologist Sir Harold Marshall – acoustician John Marwick – palaeontologist, geologist Ruth Mason – botanist Sir Archie McIndoe – pioneer plastic surgeon Tracey McIntosh – sociologist Don Merton – conservationist Brian Molloy – botanist Pérrine Moncrieff – ornithologist Mary Morgan-Richards – evolutionary biologist Tim Naish – glaciologist John Morton – biologist, theologian Wendy Nelson – marine algae expert Frank Newhook – plant pathologist Dame Charmian O'Connor – organic chemist Stephen Parke – theoretical physicist David Penny – biologist William Pickering – central figure and pioneer of NASA space exploration Winston Ponder – malacologist Arthur William Baden Powell – naturalist, malacologist, palaeontologist Margaret Reid – physicist specialising in quantum optics James Renwick – climate scientist Christina Riesselman – paleoceanographer Natalie Robinson – polar oceanographer Jacqueline Rowarth – agricultural scientist Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson – scientist and winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Jim Salinger – climate scientist Luitgard Schwendenmann, ecosystem scientist Liz Slooten – zoologist Ruth Spearing – haematologist David Spence – mathematician Gerald Stokell – horticulturist, ichthyologist Kathryn Stowell – biochemist Vida Stout – limnologist Mary Sutherland – botanist Jeff Tallon – physicist Warren Tate – biochemist Reremoana Theodore – epidemiologist 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 Dan Walls – physicist and pioneer in quantum optics Kath Walker, conservation scientist Ian Warrington – horticulturalist, administrator Robert Webster – discovered the link between human flu and bird flu William Henry Webster – malacologist and conchcologist 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 Allan Charles Wilson – biochemist; revolutionary evolutionist Christine Winterbourn – pathologist Trecia Wouldes - professor of psychological medicine David Wratt – ex-Chief Climate Scientist, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) Gillian Wratt – Antarctic researcher, first woman director of the New Zealand Antarctic Programme John Stuart Yeates – botanist
Other lists of New Zealand scientists Hector Memorial Medal recipients Rutherford Medal recipients New Zealand Antarctic Medal recipients Sciblogs.co.nz List of New Zealand women botanists
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