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[]
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- ^ Anon., "Memoir of Clinton Sumner Burns." American Society of Civil Engineers.,(1924) Volume 50, page 931. Proceedings. New York: American Society of Civil Engineers.
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