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.
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
scientists with articles on Wikipedia and is necessarily incomplete.
- Alexander AitkenAlexander AitkenAlexander Craig Aitken was one of New Zealand's greatest mathematicians. He studied for a PhD at the University of Edinburgh, where his dissertation, "Smoothing of Data", was considered so impressive that he was awarded a DSc in 1926, and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh...
- mathematician/statistician, writer, mental calculator, musician - Sir Brian Barratt-BoyesBrian Barratt-BoyesSir Brian Gerald Barratt-Boyes, KBE was a pioneering heart surgeon from New Zealand.Barratt-Boyes went to Victoria University before study medicine at Otago's Medical School, graduating in 1946. He continued his training as a surgeon, initially in New Zealand, and later at the Mayo Clinic and as...
- heart surgeon - Gary Bold - physicist
- Leonard CockayneLeonard CockayneLeonard Cockayne FRS is regarded as New Zealand's greatest botanist and a founder of modern science in New Zealand.-Biography:He was born in Sheffield, England where he attended Wesley College...
- botanist - Leslie ComrieLeslie ComrieLeslie John Comrie was an astronomer and a pioneer in mechanical computation.-Life:Leslie John Comrie was born in Pukekohe , New Zealand, on 15 August 1893....
- computer pioneer - G. H. CunninghamG. H. CunninghamGordon Herriot Cunningham C.B.E., F.R.S., was the first New Zealand-based mycologist and plant pathologist. In 1936 he was appointed the first director of the DSIR Plant Diseases Division. Cunningham established the New Zealand Fungal Herbarium, and he published extensively on taxonomy of many...
- "father" of New Zealand mycologyMycologyMycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungi, including their genetic and biochemical properties, their taxonomy and their use to humans as a source for tinder, medicinals , food and entheogens, as well as their dangers, such as poisoning or... - Joan DingleyJoan DingleyDr Joan Marjore Dingley OBE was one of the pioneer women of New Zealand science. She worked for the DSIRPlant Diseases Division from 1941 to 1976, becoming the head of mycology....
- mycologist - Doug DyeDoug DyeDr Douglas W. Dye was a New Zealand microbiologist.Dye began work with the DSIR in 1946 and for the first 10 years of his career, worked as a pathologist on the pathogenic bacteria of crops in New Zealand. From 1956 till 1958, he studied in Edinburgh for his PhD, the subject of which was the...
- plant bacteriologist - Derek FreemanDerek FreemanJohn Derek Freeman was a New Zealand anthropologist best known for his criticism of Margaret Mead's work in Samoan society, as described in her 1928 ethnography Coming of Age in Samoa...
- anthropologist - Charles GiffordCharles GiffordAlgernon Charles Gifford MA was an astronomer, explorer and teacher. Gifford was born off the Cape of Good Hope aboard the Zealandia and upon arrival in New Zealand his family settled in Oamaru. In 1880 he became a sizar at St John's College, Cambridge and graduated as 14th wrangler...
- teacher and very successful promoter of astronomyAstronomyAstronomy is a natural science that deals with the study of celestial objects and phenomena that originate outside the atmosphere of Earth... - Sir James HectorJames HectorSir James Hector was a Scottish geologist, naturalist, and surgeon who accompanied the Palliser Expedition as a surgeon and geologist...
- geologist - Diamond JennessDiamond JennessDiamond Jenness, CC was one of Canada's greatest early scientists and a pioneer of Canadian anthropology.-Biography:...
- anthropologist - Vaughan JonesVaughan JonesSir Vaughan Frederick Randal Jones, KNZM, FRS, FRSNZ is a New Zealand mathematician, known for his work on von Neumann algebras, knot polynomials and conformal field theory. He was awarded a Fields Medal in 1990, and famously wore a New Zealand rugby jersey when he accepted the prize...
- mathematician, awarded Fields Medal - Sir Archie McIndoeArchibald McIndoeSir Archibald McIndoe CBE FRCS was a pioneering New Zealand plastic surgeon who worked for the Royal Air Force during World War II. He greatly improved the treatment and rehabilitation of badly burned aircrew.-Background:...
- pioneer plastic surgeon - Alan G MacDiarmid - co-winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in ChemistryNobel Prize in ChemistryThe Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature,...
- John Edward MortonJohn Edward MortonJohn Edward Morton was a biologist, scholar, theologian, and conservationist from New Zealand. Trained at the University of Aukland and the University of London, he became the author of numerous books, papers and newspaper columns. Morton researched New Zealand’s ecology and marine life, and was a...
- biologist, theologian - Frank NewhookFrank NewhookProfessor Francis John Newhook OBE was the head of the School of Plant Pathology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He was the first plant pathologist at the university, from 1966 as an Associate Professor, and from 1969 a personal chair...
- plant pathologist - Stephen ParkeStephen ParkeStephen Parke is a New Zealand physicist. He is currently a Senior Scientist and Head of the Theoretical Physics Department at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory .-Biography:...
- theoretical physicist - William PickeringWilliam Hayward PickeringWilliam Hayward Pickering ONZ KBE was a New Zealand born rocket scientist who headed Pasadena, California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for 22 years, retiring in 1976...
- central figure and pioneer of NASA space exploration - Ernest RutherfordErnest RutherfordErnest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson OM, FRS was a New Zealand-born British chemist and physicist who became known as the father of nuclear physics...
, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson - scientist and winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize in ChemistryNobel Prize in ChemistryThe Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature,... - Jim SalingerJim SalingerM. Jim Salinger is an Auckland-based climate change scientist who formerly worked for the Crown Research Institute NIWA ....
- Climate scientist - Beatrice TinsleyBeatrice TinsleyBeatrice Muriel Hill Tinsley was a New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist whose research made fundamental contributions to the astronomical understanding of how galaxies evolve with time.-Life:...
- astronomer and cosmologist - Sir Julius von HaastJulius von HaastSir Johann Franz "Julius" von Haast was a German geologist. He founded Canterbury Museum at Christchurch.-Biography:...
- geologist - Robert Webster - discovered the link between human flu and bird flu
- Maurice WilkinsMaurice WilkinsMaurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins CBE FRS was a New Zealand-born English physicist and molecular biologist, and Nobel Laureate whose research contributed to the scientific understanding of phosphorescence, isotope separation, optical microscopy and X-ray diffraction, and to the development of radar...
- shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his part in elucidating the structure of DNA - David WrattDavid WrattDavid Wratt is the Chief Scientist at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research and is responsible for NIWA's National Climate Centre. He has a PhD in atmospheric physics from the University of Canterbury. He has worked in the USA and Australia as well as New Zealand...
- Chief Climate Scientist, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric ResearchNational Institute of Water and Atmospheric ResearchThe National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research or NIWA , is a Crown Research Institute of New Zealand. Established in 1992, NIWA conducts commercial and non-commercial research across a broad range of disciplines in the environmental sciences...
(NIWA) - John Stuart YeatesJohn Stuart YeatesJohn Stuart Yeates, MBE, PhD , also known as Jack Yeates, was a New Zealand academic and botanist. The founding head of Agricultural Botany at Massey Agricultural College, he was also an accomplished breeder of azaleas, rhododendrons and lilies.-Early life and education:Born into a farming family...
- botanist
Other lists of New Zealand scientists
- Hector Memorial Medal RecipientsHector Memorial MedalThe Hector Memorial Medal is awarded annually for outstanding contribution to the advancement of the particular branch of science. It is awarded by the Royal Society of New Zealand in memory of Sir James Hector...
- Rutherford Medal Recipients
- Sciblogs.co.nzSciblogs.co.nzSciblogs.co.nz is a network of New Zealand based science bloggers. The network was founded in late 2009 and includes a syndicate of scientists from universities, Crown Research Institutes and private research organisations....