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 botanist and educator; professor emerita, the Ohio State University"Dr. Lois Lampe Quits as Secretary". Washington C.H. Record-Herald. May 28, 1952. Retrieved 24 November 2015. 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 Schoolhttps://www.askdrfatima.com/ Eduardo Suger Swiss-Guatemalan educator and founder of Galileo University Blake R. Van Leer United States Army officer and president of Georgia Institute of TechnologyBlake Van Leer Named Dean Of Engineering Jeffrey Vitter computer scientist and 17th chancellor of the University of Mississippi
Aerospace Gene Cernan 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 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) 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"2008 Rachel Carson Lecture by Peter Raven" (2008). Michigan State University. Retrieved 2012-11-28. Julia Warner Snow 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 zoologist and early cytogeneticist who discovered the chromosomal rearrangement named in his honour, Robertsonian translocation Florence Wells Slater 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"The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1932: Irving Langmuir". From Nobel Lectures, Chemistry 1922-1941. Elsevier Publishing Company: Amsterdam, 1966. Retrieved 2012-11-28. 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 winnerGoertzel, T.G., & Goertzel, B. (1995). Linus Pauling: a life in science and politics. New York: Basic Books. Pages 121-133. Harry Snyder president of Minnesota Sigma Xi chapterGopher Yearbook: Class of 1908 (1908). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota. Page 139. Theodor Svedberg Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner"Nobel Laureates" (2012). Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Society. Retrieved 2012-11-28. Harold Urey discovery of deuterium, Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner"Urey, '34 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry, Speaks at Fogg" (March 31, 1937). The Harvard Crimson online. Retrieved 2012-11-28
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 Economicswinner William D. Nordhaus Nobel Prize in Economics winner 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 geologist, expert on fossils
Mathematics and statistics Albert Turner Bharucha-Reid probability and Markov chain theorist Bruce A. Craig statistician and academic George P. McCabe statistician James McMahon delegate to First Convention of Sigma XiHenry Baldwin Ward, Sigma Xi: Quarter Century History (1886–1911). 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 engineerAnon., "Memoir of Clinton Sumner Burns." American Society of Civil Engineers.,(1924) Volume 50, page 931. Proceedings. New York: American Society of Civil Engineers. 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 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"