List of New Zealand scientists
- 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
* 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
* 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
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