ben & sam wilkinson
He was the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, but is now dead. He died at the age of 88. He was a New Zealander who was born and died in Auckland. He died 2008 Januray 11. :[
On the 4th of January 1958 the New Zealand component of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition reached the South Pole. They were led by Edmund Hillary and became the first party to reach the South Pole overland since Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated expedition.
The USA created the first atomic bomb in New Mexico in the closing stages of World War Two. They used it to defeat Japan.
The author, Maurice Shadbolt (1932-2004), is a New Zealander; he has published a number of short stories, and worked as a film director.
A New Zealander is a person from the country of New Zealand.
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Ted Morgan
Yes, Temuera Morrison is a New Zealander.
Ernest Rutherford was the New-Zealand physicist who "split the atom". Please see the related links for details.
New Zealander sir Edmud Percival Hillary
Peter snell
Bruce McLaren in 1959.
Earnest Rutherford -- A New Zealander
Yes, Dane Rumble is New Zealander. He was born in Auckland NZ.
There are many interpretations as to who "discovered" DNA, but I have never heard that it was a New Zealander that "invented" it.
Henry the Tuatara