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You may be interested in the person behind the science. This is just a list, with few details. Most of this list comes from:
Balchin, J. (2003) Quantum Leaps: 100 Scientists who changed the World, also
Meduna, V. & Priestley, R. (2008) Atoms, dinosaurs & DNA: 68 Great New Zealand Scientists.

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  • Adkin, Leslie, 1888 - 1964
    • Started as a Geologist, when he found Maori artefacts, he embraced Archaeology.
  • Buck, Peter, 1877 - 1951
    • Maori Anthropologist, Ethnologist, and medical doctor.
  • Buller, Walter, 1838 - 1906
    • First NZ born scientist to make an impact internationally.
  • Chilton, Charles, 1860 - 1929
    • English Zoologist, dux of Christchurch West School. He went on field trips despite having one leg amputated.
  • Cockayne, Leonard, 1855 - 1934
    • English Botanist arrived in NZ in 1881.
  • Cotton, Charles, 1885 - 1970
    • Geomorphologist born in Dunedin.
  • Curtis, Kathleen, 1892 - 1994
    • An expert on Mycology (the study of fungi), worked with Sir Theodore Rigg at the Cawthorn Institute. They married when he was 78, and she 74.
  • Day, Francis, 1891 - 1979
    • Genetisist, and Biologist, the sheep breed Perendale is named after him.
  • Guthrie-Smith, Herbert, 1862 - 1940
    • Naturalist who wrote about his sheep farm Tutira, north of Napier.
  • Hector, James, 1834 - 1907
    • Geologist (founded the Geological Survey of NZ) and zoologist (Hector's Dolphin!).
  • Hudson, George, 1867 - 1946
    • Entomologist, Astronomer, moved to NZ in 1881.
  • Hutton, Frederick, 1836 - 1905
    • Geologist, worked for the Geological Survey of NZ.
  • Maclaurin, James, 1864 - 1939
    • Chemist who graduated from Auckland University and worked on the cyanide method of separating gold from low grade ores.
  • Marsden, Ernest, 1889 - 1970
    • Helped Rutherford working on the structure of the atom. Became the first Secretary of the DSIR (Deptartment of Science and Industrial Research).
  • McKay, Alexander, 1841 - 1917
    • Geologist from Scotland, arrived in Bluff in 1863.
  • Moncrieff, Pérrine, 1893 - 1979
    • Ornithologist and conservationist coming to Nelson from England in 1921.
  • Peren, Geoffrey, 1892 - 1980
    • Agricultural Scientist, the sheep breed Drysdale is named after him.
  • Reischek, Andreas, 1845 - 1902
    • Naturalist from Vienna, arrived in NZ in 1877.
  • Riddet, William, 1896 - 1958
    • Born in Ayreshire, Scotland, Riddet was an Agricultural Scientist interested in Dairy farming.
  • Rigg, Sir Theodore, 1888 - 1972
    • Agricultural chemist, worked with Kathleen Curtis at the Cawthorn Institute. They married when he was 78, and she 74.
  • Thomson, James Allan, 1881 - 1928
    • Geologist, died from Tuberculosis.
  • Thomson, GM (George Malcolm), 1848 - 1933
    • Naturalist and MP for Dunedin North.
  • Bell, Muriel, 1898 - 1974
    • From Murchison, she worked on diets, especially for children.
  • Hayes, Bill (Robert Cecil), 1900 - 1977
    • Having seen Halley's comet in 1910, he was fascinated with Astromomy. His job at the Hector Observatory in Kelburn, Wellington, involved maintaining the seismograph, where he became an expert on Seismology.
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