List of Sigma Xi members
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This is a list of notable members of the science and engineering honor society Sigma Xi.
Academia
- Jeremy Howick – Canadian-British interdisciplinary researcher and founding director of the Stoneygate Centre for Excellence in Empathic Healthcare.[1]
- Lois Lampe – American botanist and educator. Professor Emerita, The Ohio State University.[2]
- Herbert E. Longenecker – President of Tulane University[3]
- Henry P. Rusk, dean of the department of agriculture, University of Illinois
- Fatima Cody Stanford – obesity-medicine physician–scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and associate professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School[4]
- Eduardo Suger – Swiss-Guatemalan educator and founder of Galileo University[5]
- Blake R. Van Leer – United States Army officer and president of Georgia Institute of Technology[6]
- Jeffrey Vitter – Computer scientist and 17th chancellor of the University of Mississippi
- Sarath Menon R – Neurologist & Peripheral Nerve Specialist
- Samuel K. Williams, III, Boston Medical Center trained internist and graduate of Morehouse and Meharry Medical College, author of the impactful publication Evidence-Based Care for the Elderly: Uses of "the Grandmother Principle,"
https://www.sigmaxi.org/about/leadership/constituency-directors.
Aerospace
- Ali Baghchehsara – Vice President of Solar Maximum Co. and coauthor of Electric Space: Space-Based Solar Power Technologies & Applications[7][8]
- Gene Cernan - American astronaut; commander of the Apollo 17 Moon landing and the last man to walk on the Moon.
- Irmgard Flügge-Lotz – developed the theory of discontinuous automatic control; first female engineering professor at Stanford University and first female engineer elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
- Jack Parsons - American rocket engineer, rocket propulsion researcher, chemist, and a leading member of the OTO occult group.
Anthropology
- Eugenie Scott – leading critic of young Earth creationism and intelligent design[9]
Biology
Botany
- Don G. Despain – flora of Yellowstone National Park specialist[10]
- Edwin Earle Honey (1891–1956) – American plant pathologist and mycologist[11]
- Hu Hsen-Hsu (1894–1968) – Founder of plant taxonomy in China[12]
- Barbara McClintock – cytogenetics specialist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winner[13]
- Peter H. Raven – President Emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden[14]
- Julia Warner Snow – American systematic phycologist and instructor.[15]
Entomology
- Anna Botsford Comstock – insect illustrator, leader in the nature study movement, and one of the first four female members of Sigma Xi
- Marion Durbin Ellis – ichthyologist and entomologist[16]
Molecular biology
- Francis Crick – co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winner
- Jennifer Doudna - pioneer in CRISPR gene editing, Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner[17]
- James D. Watson – co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winner
Zoology
- Roger Arliner Young – first African American woman to receive a PhD in zoology[18]
- William Rees Brebner Robertson - American zoologist and early cytogeneticist who discovered the chromosomal rearrangement named in his honour, Robertsonian translocation[19]
- Florence Wells Slater - American entomologist[20]
Chemistry
- Arthur W. Adamson – inorganic photochemistry pioneer[21]
- Arthur A. Noyes - Chemist and inventor[22]
- Bettye Washington Greene – Dow Chemical[23]
- Narayan Sadashiv Hosmane – Humboldt Prize winner[24]
- Ray R. Irani – current chairman and former chief executive officer of Occidental Petroleum[25]
- Irving Langmuir – research helped develop the incandescent light bulb, Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner[26][27]
- Tobin J. Marks – National Medal of Science laureate[25]
- Hazel E. Munsell – Kappa chapter; chemist and nutrition researcher[28]
- Donna Nelson – President of Oklahoma Sigma Xi Chapter, American Chemical Society (ACS) President (2016), Breaking Bad science advisor (2008–2013).
- Linus Pauling – Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner[29]
- Harry Snyder – President of Minnesota Sigma Xi Chapter[30]
- Kelly O. Sullivan – Sigma Xi President, 2012–2013
- Theodor Svedberg – Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner[26]
- Harold Urey – discovery of deuterium, Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner[31]
- Khairat Muhammad Ibne Rasa - Winner of the Potter Prize, Brown University 1959
Computer science
- Alan Sherman – Cryptologia editor
- Michael Waterman – computational biology specialist[25]
Economics
- Kenneth Arrow – Nobel Prize in Economics winner[32]
- Herbert A. Simon – political scientist, Nobel Prize in Economics winner[33]
- John Forbes Nash Jr. mathematician, Nobel Prize in Economics winner
- Robert C. Merton – Nobel Prize in Economics winner[34]
- Myron S. Scholes – Nobel Prize in Economics winner
- Daniel Kahneman – psychologist, Nobel Prize in Economics winner[35]
- Lloyd S. Shapley mathematician – Nobel Prize in Economics
- William D. Nordhaus – Nobel Prize in Economics winner[36]
Engineering
Chemical engineering
- Frances Arnold - Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner for directed evolution
Electrical engineering
- Supriyo Datta – Director of NASA Institute for Nanoelectronics and Computing[25]
- Gordon T. Gould, US Air Force lieutenant general[37]
- Alan V. Oppenheim – Developed the field of digital signal processing and member of the National Academy of Engineering
- Mabel MacFerran Rockwell – Only woman involved in designing and installing the power generating machinery for Hoover Dam
Mechanical engineering
- Catherine Mohr – surgical roboticist and faculty of Stanford School of Medicine
Materials science
- Katherine T. Faber - world expert in ceramics and originator of the Faber-Evans model for crack deflection
- John B. Goodenough - developer of the lithium-ion battery and winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Galen D. Stucky - expert in mesoporous materials
- Sharat Kumar Roy - American Geologist of Indian origin and expert in fossils.
Mathematics and Statistics
- Albert Turner Bharucha-Reid – probability and Markov chain theorist
- Bruce A. Craig – American statistician and academic[38]
- George P. McCabe – American statistician
- James McMahon – delegate to First Convention of Sigma Xi[39]
- John J. Deely – statistician and educator
- John von Neumann – Enrico Fermi Award winner[13]
- Herman Rubin – statistician
- Cornelia Strong – professor of mathematics and astronomy
Physics
- John C. Cook – played a crucial role in establishing the field of ground-penetrating radar[40]
- Richard J. Duffin – mathematical physicist noted for contributions to electrical transmission theory and geometric programming
- Albert Einstein – developed the general theory of relativity, Nobel Prize in Physics winner
- Richard Feynman – Nobel Prize in Physics winner[13]
- Enrico Fermi – Chicago Pile team member, Nobel Prize in Physics winner
- Andrea Ghez - astrophysicist, Nobel Prize in Physics winner[17]
- Mustapha Ishak Boushaki – gravitational lensing and universe expansion physicist, University of Texas at Dallas
- Walter E. Massey – physicist and president of Morehouse College 1995–2007[41]
- Ernest Merritt – Dean of the Graduate School, Cornell University
- Robert A. Millikan - Nobel Prize in Physics winner, president of Caltech[22]
- Rahul Pandit – condensed matter physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
- Andrea Prosperetti – multiphase flow researcher[25]
- Natalia Zotov, cosmologist specializing in gravity waves at Louisiana Tech
Psychology
- Marie Skodak Crissey – developmental psychologist, served as president of two divisions of the American Psychological Association
- Steven Rasmussen – psychiatrist, Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University[42]
Honorary members
- Natalie Angier – journalist[43]
- Deborah Blum – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist[43]
- Sherwood Boehlert – member of the United States House of Representatives[43]
- George Brown, Jr. – member of the United States House of Representatives[43]
- Malcolm Browne – photojournalist[43]
- Clinton Sumner Burns – civil engineer[44]
- William D. Carey – publisher of Science[43]
- Barbara Culliton – science journalist and editor
- Claudia Dreifus – journalist[43]
- Dennis Flanagan – founding editor of Scientific American[43]
- Ira Flatow – Science Friday host[43]
- Al Gore – Vice President of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize winner[43]
- Sidney Harris – cartoonist[43]
- Brian Hayes – science writer[43]
- Theodore Hesburgh – President Emeritus of the University of Notre Dame[43]
- Jamie Hyneman – MythBusters co-host[43]
- Bill Kurtis – television journalist[43]
- Bob McDonald – journalist[43]
- Dennis Overbye – science writer[43]
- David Price – member of the United States House of Representatives[43]
- David Quammen – science writer[43]
- Paul Raeburn – science writer[43]
- Floyd M. Riddick – Parliamentarian of the United States Senate[43]
- Adam Savage – MythBusters co-host[43]
- David Sington – BBC journalist[43]
- Walter S. Sullivan – New York Times journalist[43]
- Robert Dillard Teer Jr. – Real Estate Developer and General Contractor[43]
- Stewart Udall – Secretary of the Interior during John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson administrations[43]
