List of Sigma Xi members

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.
• Lois Lampe American botanist and educator. Professor Emerita, The Ohio State University.
• Herbert E. Longenecker President of Tulane University
• 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
• Eduardo Suger Swiss-Guatemalan educator and founder of Galileo University
• Blake R. Van Leer United States Army officer and president of Georgia Institute of Technology
• Jeffrey Vitter Computer scientist and 17th chancellor of the University of Mississippi
• Sarath Menon RNeurologist & 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,"

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Aerospace

• Ali Baghchehsara Vice President of Solar Maximum Co. and coauthor of Electric Space: Space-Based Solar Power Technologies & Applications
• 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

Biology

Botany

• Don G. Despain flora of Yellowstone National Park specialist
• Edwin Earle Honey (1891–1956) American plant pathologist and mycologist
• Hu Hsen-Hsu (1894–1968) Founder of plant taxonomy in China
• Barbara McClintock cytogenetics specialist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winner
• Peter H. Raven President Emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Julia Warner Snow American systematic phycologist and instructor.

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

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
• 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
• William Rees Brebner Robertson - American zoologist and early cytogeneticist who discovered the chromosomal rearrangement named in his honour, Robertsonian translocation
• Florence Wells Slater - American entomologist

Chemistry

• Arthur W. Adamson inorganic photochemistry pioneer
• Arthur A. Noyes - Chemist and inventor
• Bettye Washington Greene Dow Chemical
• Narayan Sadashiv Hosmane Humboldt Prize winner
• Ray R. Irani current chairman and former chief executive officer of Occidental Petroleum
• Irving Langmuir research helped develop the incandescent light bulb, Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner
• Tobin J. Marks National Medal of Science laureate
• Hazel E. Munsell – Kappa chapter; chemist and nutrition researcher
• 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
• Harry Snyder President of Minnesota Sigma Xi Chapter
• Kelly O. Sullivan Sigma Xi President, 2012–2013
• Theodor Svedberg Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner
• Harold Urey discovery of deuterium, Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner
• Khairat Muhammad Ibne Rasa - Winner of the Potter Prize, Brown University 1959

Computer science

• Alan Sherman Cryptologia editor
• Michael Waterman computational biology specialist

Economics

• Kenneth Arrow Nobel Prize in Economics winner
• Herbert A. Simon political scientist, Nobel Prize in Economics winner
• John Forbes Nash Jr. mathematician, Nobel Prize in Economics winner
• Robert C. Merton Nobel Prize in Economics winner
• Myron S. Scholes Nobel Prize in Economics winner
• Daniel Kahneman psychologist, Nobel Prize in Economics winner
• Lloyd S. Shapley mathematician Nobel Prize in Economics
• William D. Nordhaus Nobel Prize in Economics winner

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
• Gordon T. Gould, US Air Force lieutenant general
• 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
• James McMahon delegate to First Convention of Sigma Xi
• John J. Deely statistician and educator
• John von Neumann Enrico Fermi Award winner
• Herman Rubinstatistician
• Cornelia Strong professor of mathematics and astronomy

Physics

• John C. Cook played a crucial role in establishing the field of ground-penetrating radar
• 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
• Enrico Fermi Chicago Pile team member, Nobel Prize in Physics winner
• Andrea Ghez - astrophysicist, Nobel Prize in Physics winner
• 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
• Ernest Merritt Dean of the Graduate School, Cornell University
• Robert A. Millikan - Nobel Prize in Physics winner, president of Caltech
• Rahul Pandit condensed matter physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
• Andrea Prosperetti multiphase flow researcher
• Natalia Zotov, cosmologist specializing in gravity waves at Louisiana Tech

Psychology

• Marie Skodak Crisseydevelopmental psychologist, served as president of two divisions of the American Psychological Association
• Steven Rasmussenpsychiatrist, Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University

Honorary members

• Natalie Angier journalist
• Deborah Blum Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
• Sherwood Boehlert member of the United States House of Representatives
• George Brown, Jr. member of the United States House of Representatives
• Malcolm Browne photojournalist
• Clinton Sumner Burns civil engineer
• William D. Carey publisher of Science
• Barbara Cullitonscience journalist and editor
• Claudia Dreifus journalist
• Dennis Flanagan founding editor of Scientific American
• Ira Flatow Science Friday host
• Al Gore Vice President of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize winner
• Sidney Harris cartoonist
• Brian Hayes science writer
• Theodore Hesburgh President Emeritus of the University of Notre Dame
• Jamie Hyneman MythBusters co-host
• Bill Kurtis television journalist
• Bob McDonald journalist
• Dennis Overbye science writer
• David Price member of the United States House of Representatives
• David Quammen science writer
• Paul Raeburn science writer
• Floyd M. Riddick Parliamentarian of the United States Senate
• Adam Savage MythBusters co-host
• David Sington BBC journalist
• Walter S. Sullivan New York Times journalist
• Robert Dillard Teer Jr. Real Estate Developer and General Contractor
• Stewart Udall Secretary of the Interior during John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson administrations

References

External links

• Sigma Xi's "Members in the News"