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[]

• Blake R Van Leer – United States Army officer and president of Georgia Institute of Technology^[1]
• Eduardo Suger – Swiss-Guatemalan educator and founder of Galileo University^[2]

Aerospace[]

•  – Vice President of Solar Maximum Co. and coauthor of Electric Space: Space-Based Solar Power Technologies & Applications^[3][4]
• 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^[5]

Botany[]

• Don G. Despain – flora of Yellowstone National Park specialist^[6]
• Edwin Earle Honey (1891–1956) – American plant pathologist and mycologist^[7]
• Barbara McClintock – cytogenetics specialist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winner^[8]
• Peter H. Raven – President Emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden^[9]
• Julia Warner Snow – American systematic phycologist and instructor.^[10]

Chemistry[]

• Arthur W. Adamson – inorganic photochemistry pioneer^[11]
• Bettye Washington Greene  – Dow Chemical^[12]
• Narayan Sadashiv Hosmane – Humboldt Prize winner^[13]
• Ray R. Irani – current chairman and former chief executive officer of Occidental Petroleum^[14]
• Irving Langmuir – research helped develop the incandescent light bulb, Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner^[15][16]
• Tobin J. Marks – National Medal of Science laureate^[14]
• 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^[17]
• Harry Snyder – President of Minnesota Sigma Xi Chapter^[18]
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• Theodor Svedberg – Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner^[15]
• Harold Urey – discovery of deuterium, Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner^[19]
• Khairat Muhammad Ibne Rasa - Winner of the Potter Prize, Brown University 1959

Computer science[]

• Alan Sherman – Cryptologia editor
• Michael Waterman – computational biology specialist^[14]

Electrical engineering[]

• Supriyo Datta – Director of NASA Institute for Nanoelectronics and Computing^[14]
• Alan V. Oppenheim – Developed the field of digital signal processing and member of the National Academy of Engineering

Entomology[]

• Anna Botsford Comstock – insect illustrator, leader in the nature study movement, and one of the first four female members of Sigma Xi

Mathematics[]

• Albert Turner Bharucha-Reid – probability and Markov chain theorist
• James McMahon – delegate to First Convention of Sigma Xi^[20]
• John von Neumann – Enrico Fermi Award winner^[8]
• Cornelia Strong – professor of mathematics and astronomy

Mechanical engineering[]

• Catherine Mohr  – surgical roboticist and faculty of Stanford School of Medicine

Molecular biology[]

• Francis Crick – co-discoverer of DNA molecule, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winner
• James D. Watson – co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winner

Physics[]

• John C. Cook – played a crucial role in establishing the field of ground-penetrating radar^[21]
• 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^[8]
• Enrico Fermi – Chicago Pile team member, Nobel Prize in Physics winner
• Mustapha Ishak Boushaki – gravitational lensing and universe expansion physicist, University of Texas at Dallas
• Ernest Merritt – Dean of the Graduate School, Cornell University
• Rahul Pandit – condensed matter physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
• Andrea Prosperetti – multiphase flow researcher^[14]

Zoology[]

• Roger Arliner Young – first African American woman to receive a PhD in zoology^[22]
• William Rees Brebner Robertson - American zoologist and early cytogeneticist who discovered the chromosomal rearrangement named in his honour, Robertsonian translocation^[23]
• Florence Wells Slater - American entomologist^[24]

Honorary members[]

• Natalie Angier – journalist^[25]
• Deborah Blum – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist^[25]
• Sherwood Boehlert – member of the United States House of Representatives^[25]
• George Brown, Jr. – member of the United States House of Representatives^[25]
• Malcolm Browne – photojournalist^[25]
• Clinton Sumner Burns  – civil engineer ^[26]
• William D. Carey – publisher of Science^[25]
• Claudia Dreifus – journalist^[25]
• Dennis Flanagan – founding editor of Scientific American^[25]
• Ira Flatow – Science Friday host^[25]
• Al Gore – Vice President of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize winner^[25]
• Sidney Harris – cartoonist^[25]
• Brian Hayes – science writer^[25]
• Theodore Hesburgh – President Emeritus of the University of Notre Dame^[25]
• Jamie Hyneman – MythBusters co-host^[25]
• Bill Kurtis – television journalist^[25]
• Bob McDonald – journalist^[25]
• Dennis Overbye – science writer^[25]
• David Price – member of the United States House of Representatives^[25]
• David Quammen – science writer^[25]
• Paul Raeburn – science writer^[25]
• Floyd M. Riddick – Parliamentarian of the United States Senate^[25]
• Adam Savage – MythBusters co-host^[25]
• David Sington – BBC journalist^[25]
• Walter S. Sullivan – New York Times journalist^[25]
•  – Real Estate Developer and General Contractor^[25]
• Stewart Udall – Secretary of the Interior during John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson administrations^[25]

References[]

External links[]

• Sigma Xi's "Members in the News"