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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.

Contents

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

    • References

    List of Sigma Xi members Wikipedia
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