List of New Zealand scientists
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- Alexander Aitken - mathematician/statistician, writer, mental calculator, musician
- Sir Brian Barratt-Boyes - heart surgeon
- Gary Bold - physicist
- Paul Callaghan - famous for work in magnetic resonance
- John G. Cleary - computer scientist
- Leonard Cockayne - botanist
- 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
- Roy Kerr - proved a solution to Einstein's equations which modelled a spinning black hole
- Alan G MacDiarmid - co-winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Sir Archie McIndoe - pioneer plastic surgeon
- John Edward Morton - biologist, theologian
- 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
- Jim Salinger -climate scientist
- David Allan Spence - mathematician
- Mary Sutherland - botanist
- 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
- 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
- David Wratt - Chief Climate Scientist, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)
- John Stuart Yeates - botanist
