List of Sigma Xi members

Aerospace

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

Anthropology

Eugenie Scott – leading critic of young earth creationism and intelligent design

Botany

Don G. Despain – flora of Yellowstone National Park specialist

Edwin Earle Honey (1891–1956) – American plant pathologist and mycologist

Barbara McClintock – cytogenetics specialist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winner

Peter H. Raven – President Emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden

Chemistry

Arthur W. Adamson – inorganic photochemistry pioneer

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

Donna Nelson – President of Oklahoma Sigma Xi Chapter

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

Electrical engineering

Supriyo Datta – Director of NASA Institute for Nanoelectronics and Computing

Entomology

Anna Botsford Comstock – 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

John von Neumann – Enrico Fermi Award winner

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

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

Mustapha Ishak-Boushaki – astrophysicist noted for contributions to dark energy and gravitational lensing

Ernest Merritt – Dean of the Graduate School, Cornell University

Andrea Prosperetti – multiphase flow researcher

Zoology

Roger Arliner Young – first African American woman to receive a PhD in zoology

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

William D. Carey – publisher of Science

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