# 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
* 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
* 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
* 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