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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 * * Brian Barratt-Boyes, Sir Brian Barratt-Boyes – heart surgeon * Peter Barrett (geologist), 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Anderson
Helen Joan Anderson (born 11 September 1955) is a New Zealand professional director, scientist and, previously, public servant. She currently serves as a director on a number of boards and is Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Directors (CFInstD) Early life and family Anderson was born in Dunedin on 11 September 1955, the daughter of Patricia and Atherton Anderson. Anderson was educated at Columba College, and then studied at the University of Auckland, graduating with a Bachelor of Science, BSc(Hons). She later undertook doctoral studies at the University of Cambridge, gaining a PhD in 1985. Professional career Anderson is currently, or has previously been, Chair of the Board of BRANZ, Studio Pacific Architecture, Scion (Crown Research Institute), Scion and Fulbright Program, Fulbright NZ, a director at Antarctica New Zealand, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, NIWA, Dairy NZ and ClearPoint Ltd. Other roles held have been on the councils of Massey Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carolyn Burns
Dame Carolyn Waugh Burns (born 3 February 1942) is a New Zealand ecologist specialising in lakes. She is an emeritus professor at the University of Otago. Early life, family, and education Burns was born in Lincoln, New Zealand, the daughter of Ruth Alvina Burns (née Waugh) and Malcolm McRae Burns, an agricultural scientist. She was educated at Christchurch Girls' High School, before studying zoology at the University of Canterbury, from where she graduated Bachelor of Science with first-class honours in 1962. She completed a PhD at the University of Toronto in 1966, with her thesis titled ''The feeding behaviour of Daphnia under natural conditions''. In 1981, Burns married John Ingram Hubbard, professor of physiology at the University of Otago. He died in 1995. Academic career After a period working as a research associate in biology at Yale University from 1967 to 1968, Burns returned to New Zealand to take up a lectureship in zoology at the University of Otago. She rose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Cockayne
Leonard Cockayne (7 April 1855 – 8 July 1934) 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. He travelled to Australia in 1877 and shortly moved on to New Zealand where he became established as a botanist. In June 1901, he attended the first conference of horticulturists in New Zealand at Dunedin where he presented a paper on the plants of the Chatham Islands and advocated the establishment of experimental plant research stations in New Zealand. This helped to establish Cockayne's reputation. Cockayne was a member of the 1907 Sub-Antarctic Islands Scientific Expedition. The main aim of the expedition was to extend the magnetic survey of New Zealand by investigating Auckland and Campbell Islands but botanical, biological and zoological surveys were also conducted. The voyage also resulted in rescue of the castaways of the shipwreck the '' Dundonald'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John G
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died c. AD 30), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (lived c. AD 30), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Shearburn Clark
Helen may refer to: People * Helen of Troy, in Greek mythology, the most beautiful woman in the world * Helen (actress) (born 1938), Indian actress * Helen (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name) Places * Helen, Georgia, United States, a small city * Helen, Maryland, United States, an unincorporated place * Helen, Washington, an unincorporated community in Washington state, US * Helen, West Virginia, a census-designated place in Raleigh County * Helen Falls, a waterfall in Ontario, Canada * Lake Helen (other), several places called Helen Lake or Lake Helen * Helen, an ancient name of Makronisos island, Greece * The Hellenic Republic, Greece Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Helen'' (album), a 1981 Grammy-nominated album by Helen Humes * ''Helen'' (2008 film), a British drama starring Annie Townsend * ''Helen'' (2009 film), an American drama film starring Ashley Judd * ''Helen'' (2017 film), an Iranian drama film * ''Helen'' (2019 fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Elizabeth Shearburn Clark
Helen Elizabeth Shearburn Rotman (née Clark; 21 January 1936 – 27 August 2014) was a New Zealand expert on echinoderms, specifically starfish. She was born in Napier in 1936 and attended Nelson Park Primary School (1943–48) and Woodford House school (1949-1953). Education Her association with echinoderms began while developing a M.Sc. topic in Zoology at Victoria University in Wellington, supervised by Dr. H. B. Fell. This was after being told by a professor that he was "not having women in my department". This led to a focus on Southern Ocean asteroids (starfish). She completed her MSc at VUW in 1961 and her PhD was conferred at the same institution 1969–70. The PhD thesis title was “Revision of the Southern Hemisphere Asteroidea Order Paxillosida” and her first scientific publication was on Anareaster, a new genus of asteroid from Antarctica. This early work formed the basis of a modern interactive guide to the starfish of the Ross Sea. Research voyage She sailed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Chilton (zoologist)
Charles Chilton (27 September 1860 – 25 October 1929) was a New Zealand zoologist, the first rector to be appointed in Australasia, and the first person to be awarded a D.Sc. degree in New Zealand. Biography Chilton was born on 27 September 1860 at Little Marstone, Pencombe, son of Thomas Chilton, (near Leominster, Herefordshire, England) but emigrated with his family to New Zealand in 1862. They settled on a farm at East Eyreton, North Canterbury. He was troubled by his hips from an early age, and had his left leg amputated, using an artificial leg and a crutch thereafter. He entered Canterbury College in 1875 as an unmatriculated student, and matriculated three years later. In 1881, he gained a Master of Art with first class honours, having been taught by Frederick Hutton, who inspired him to take up biology, especially the study of crustaceans, which had been little studied in New Zealand up to that time. Chilton's first scientific publication followed that same year, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Frederic Cheeseman
Thomas Frederick Cheeseman (8 June 184515 October 1923) was a New Zealand botanist. He was also a naturalist who had wide-ranging interests, such that he even described a few species of sea slugs (marine gastropod molluscs). Biography Cheeseman was born at Hull, in Yorkshire on 8 June 1845, the eldest of five children. He came to New Zealand at the age of eight with his parents on the ''Artemesia'', arriving in Auckland on 4 April 1854. He was educated at Parnell Grammar School and then at St John's College, Auckland. His father, the Rev. Thomas Cheeseman, had been a member of the old Auckland Provincial Council. Cheeseman started studying the flora of New Zealand, and in 1872 he published an accurate and comprehensive account of the plant life of the Waitākere Ranges. In 1874, he was appointed Secretary of the Auckland Institute and Curator of the Auckland Museum, which had only recently been founded. For the first three decades, Cheeseman was the only staff member who w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Chapman
Margaret Ann Chapman (14 January 1937 – 23 May 2009) was a limnologist, one of the first New Zealand women scientists to visit Antarctica, and the first woman to lead a scientific expedition to Antarctica. Lake Chapman, in Antarctica's Ross Dependency, was named for Chapman. Chapman spent most of her teaching career at the University of Waikato. Early life and education Chapman was born in Dunedin on 14 January 1937 and studied at Southland Girls' High School and Otago Girls' High School. She graduated with a Masters of Science at the University of Otago in 1960; her thesis was on the taxonomy and ecology of New Zealand freshwater ostracods. She worked at the Sydney Water Board in Australia before moving to Scotland to study toward a PhD at the University of Glasgow, which she completed in 1965. Her doctoral thesis was entitled ''Ecological studies on the zooplankton of Loch Lomond''. Career She worked at the University of Glasgow and the University of Auckland before b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Castle (entomologist)
Amy Castle (9 May 1880 – 23 February 1971) was a New Zealand museum curator and entomologist. Biography She was born in Maori Gully, near Reefton, West Coast, New Zealand on 9 May 1880. She was the first female scientist to be employed in the public service sector in New Zealand. She also played an important role in the history of New Zealand museums, as the first entomologist and first professional woman to be employed by one. She was first employed by the Dominion Museum as a temporary photography assistant in early 1907, and was appointed to permanent staff by July. She later transferred to the entomological collection, working under Augustus Hamilton. On Hamilton's sudden death in 1913, she took charge of the entomological collections, and her primary task until 1915 was the reorganising, remounting and cataloguing the Lepidoptera, which remained her main research focus as her career progressed. She collected all over the North Island, including Kapiti Island, Mt Tara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Canterbury
The University of Canterbury ( mi, Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha; postnominal abbreviation ''Cantuar.'' or ''Cant.'' for ''Cantuariensis'', the Latin name for Canterbury) is a public research university based in Christchurch, New Zealand. It was founded in 1873 as Canterbury College, the first constituent college of the University of New Zealand. It is New Zealand's second-oldest university, after the University of Otago, itself founded four years earlier in 1869. Its original campus was in the Christchurch Central City, but in 1961 it became an independent university and began moving out of its original neo-gothic buildings, which were re-purposed as the Christchurch Arts Centre. The move was completed on 1 May 1975 and the university now operates its main campus in the Christchurch suburb of Ilam. The university is well known for its Engineering and Science programmes, with its Civil Engineering programme ranked 9th in the world (Academic Ranking of World Universities, 2021). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Carter
Janet Deborah Carter is a New Zealand clinical psychology academic who became a full professor and dean of science at the University of Canterbury in 2016. She was appointed acting Pro Vice Chancellor of Science for 2019–2020, and acting Executive Dean of Science from mid 2021. Academic career Carter completed a master's degree at the University of Canterbury in 1996, with a thesis on gender differences in depression. After a PhD titled '' 'Gender and depression: a clinical perspective' '' at the University of Otago, Carter moved to the University of Canterbury, rising to full professor. Selected works * Carter, J.D., Mulder, R.T., Bartram, A.F. and Darlow, B.A., 2005. Infants in a neonatal intensive care unit: parental response. Archives of Disease in Childhood-Fetal and neonatal edition, 90(2), pp.F109-F113. * Kawa, Izabela, Janet D. Carter, Peter R. Joyce, Caroline J. Doughty, Chris M. Frampton, J. Elisabeth Wells, Anne ES Walsh, and Robin J. Olds. "Gender differences ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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