List of New Zealand scientists

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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
Barbara Barratt – New Zealand entomologist and biocontrol expert
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
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
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 very successful 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^[1]
Heather Hendrickson – microbiologist
Barbara Heslop – immunologist
Helen Heslop – immunotherapist, hematologist
Merilyn Hibma - viral immunologist
Vicki Hyde – sceptic, psychologist
Harold John Finlay – palaeontologist, malacologist
Christina Hulbe – Antarctic glaciologists
Frederick Hutton – naturalist
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
Liz Slooten – zoologist
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^[2]
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
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

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References

^ Dell, R.K. (1990). "Hector, James". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
^ Overbye, Dennis (18 July 2018). "Overlooked No More: Beatrice Tinsley, Astronomer Who Saw the Course of the Universe". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 October 2021.