All of my heroes are fellow New Zealanders: Ernest Rutherford - Discovered the proton and originated the orbital theory of the atom. Director of a lab that lau

All of my heroes are fellow New Zealanders: Ernest Rutherford - Discovered the proton and originated the orbital theory of the atom. Director of a lab that launched the careers of many other famous physicists. William Pickering - Director of NASA's JPL during the moon years. Held the position for 22 years. Peter Jackson - Created a movie industry out of nothing in a country thousands of miles away from Hollywood. Sir Edmund Hillary - Helped build hundreds of schools and hospitals in Nepal. Climbed Everest. Crossed the Antarctic in a hacked together tractor. Jet-boated up the Ganges. Charles Upham - Won the Victoria's Cross twice during WW II.