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[1]
- Lois Lampe – 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
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[7]
Biology
Botany
- Don G. Despain – flora of Yellowstone National Park specialist[8]
- Edwin Earle Honey (1891–1956) – plant pathologist and mycologist[9]
- Hu Hsen-Hsu (1894–1968) – founder of plant taxonomy in China[10]
- Barbara McClintock – cytogenetics specialist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winner[11]
- Peter H. Raven – president emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden[12]
- Julia Warner Snow – systematic phycologist and instructor[13]
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[14]
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[15]
- 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[16]
- William Rees Brebner Robertson – zoologist and early cytogeneticist who discovered the chromosomal rearrangement named in his honour, Robertsonian translocation[17]
- Florence Wells Slater – entomologist[18]
Chemistry
- Arthur W. Adamson – inorganic photochemistry pioneer[19]
- Arthur A. Noyes – chemist and inventor[20]
- Bettye Washington Greene – Dow Chemical[21]
- Narayan Sadashiv Hosmane – Humboldt Prize winner[22]
- Ray R. Irani – current chairman and former chief executive officer of Occidental Petroleum[23]
- Irving Langmuir – research helped develop the incandescent light bulb, Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner[24][25]
- Tobin J. Marks – National Medal of Science laureate[23]
- Hazel E. Munsell – Kappa chapter; chemist and nutrition researcher[26]
- 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[27]
- Harry Snyder – president of Minnesota Sigma Xi chapter[28]
- Theodor Svedberg – Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner[24]
- Harold Urey – discovery of deuterium, Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner[29]
Computer science
- Alan Sherman – Cryptologia editor
- Michael Waterman – computational biology specialist[23]
Economics
- Kenneth Arrow – Nobel Prize in Economics winner[30]
- Herbert A. Simon – political scientist, Nobel Prize in Economics winner[31]
- John Forbes Nash Jr. mathematician, Nobel Prize in Economics winner
- Robert C. Merton – Nobel Prize in Economics winner[32]
- Myron S. Scholes – Nobel Prize in Economics winner
- Daniel Kahneman – psychologist, Nobel Prize in Economics winner[33]
- Lloyd S. Shapley – mathematician, Nobel Prize in Economicswinner
- William D. Nordhaus – Nobel Prize in Economics winner[34]
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[23]
- Gordon T. Gould – US Air Force lieutenant general[35]
- 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[36] – statistician and academic
- George P. McCabe – statistician
- James McMahon – delegate to First Convention of Sigma Xi[37]
- John J. Deely – statistician and educator
- John von Neumann – Enrico Fermi Award winner[11]
- 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[38]
- 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[11]
- Enrico Fermi – Chicago Pile team member, Nobel Prize in Physics winner
- Andrea Ghez – astrophysicist, Nobel Prize in Physics winner[15]
- 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[39]
- Ernest Merritt – dean of the Graduate School, Cornell University
- Robert A. Millikan – Nobel Prize in Physics winner, president of Caltech[20]
- Rahul Pandit – condensed matter physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
- Andrea Prosperetti – multiphase flow researcher[23]
- 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[40]
Honorary members
- Natalie Angier – journalist[41]
- Deborah Blum – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist[41]
- Sherwood Boehlert – member of the United States House of Representatives[41]
- George Brown, Jr. – member of the United States House of Representatives[41]
- Malcolm Browne – photojournalist[41]
- Clinton Sumner Burns – civil engineer[42]
- William D. Carey – publisher of Science[41]
- Barbara Culliton – science journalist and editor
- Claudia Dreifus – journalist[41]
- Dennis Flanagan – founding editor of Scientific American[41]
- Ira Flatow – Science Friday host[41]
- Al Gore – vice president of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize winner[41]
- Sidney Harris – cartoonist[41]
- Brian Hayes – science writer[41]
- Theodore Hesburgh – president emeritus of the University of Notre Dame[41]
- Jamie Hyneman – MythBusters co-host[41]
- Bill Kurtis – television journalist[41]
- Bob McDonald – journalist[41]
- Dennis Overbye – science writer[41]
- David Price – member of the United States House of Representatives[41]
- David Quammen – science writer[41]
- Paul Raeburn – science writer[41]
- Floyd M. Riddick – Parliamentarian of the United States Senate[41]
- Adam Savage – MythBusters co-host[41]
- David Sington – BBC journalist[41]
- Walter S. Sullivan – New York Times journalist[41]
- Stewart Udall – secretary of the interior during John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson administrations[41]
References
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- ↑ "Steven A Rasmussen". Researcers@Brown. Brown University. Retrieved April 27, 2025.
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