List of New Zealand scientists

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
 * Stephanie Hughes – neurobiologist
 * 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
 * Luitgard Schwendenmann, ecosystem 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
 * 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
 * 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