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.
Aerospace
- Ali Baghchehsara – Aerospace engineering student at Karaj Payam Noor University and coauthor of Electric Space: Space-Based Solar Power Technologies & Applications[1]
Anthropology
- Eugenie Scott – leading critic of young earth creationism and intelligent design[2]
Botany
- Don G. Despain – flora of Yellowstone National Park specialist[3]
- Edwin Earle Honey (1891–1956) – American plant pathologist and mycologist[4]
- Barbara McClintock – cytogenetics specialist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winner[5]
- Peter H. Raven – President Emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden[6]
Chemistry
- Arthur W. Adamson – inorganic photochemistry pioneer[7]
- Narayan Sadashiv Hosmane – Humboldt Prize winner[8]
- Ray R. Irani – current chairman and former chief executive officer of Occidental Petroleum[9]
- Irving Langmuir – research helped develop the incandescent light bulb, Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner[10][11]
- Tobin J. Marks – National Medal of Science laureate[9]
- Donna Nelson – President of Oklahoma Sigma Xi Chapter
- Linus Pauling – Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner[12]
- Harry Snyder – President of Minnesota Sigma Xi Chapter[13]
- Kelly O. Sullivan – Sigma Xi President, 2012-2013
- Theodor Svedberg – Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner[10]
- Harold Urey – discovery of deuterium, Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner[14]
Computer science
- Alan Sherman – Cryptologia editor
- Michael Waterman – computational biology specialist[9]
Electrical engineering
- Supriyo Datta – Director of NASA Institute for Nanoelectronics and Computing[9]
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[15]
- John von Neumann – Enrico Fermi Award winner[5]
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[16]
- Albert Einstein – developed the general theory of relativity, Nobel Prize in Physics winner
- Richard Feynman – Nobel Prize in Physics winner[5]
- Enrico Fermi – Chicago Pile team member, Nobel Prize in Physics winner
- Ernest Merritt – Dean of the Graduate School, Cornell University
- Andrea Prosperetti – multiphase flow researcher[9]
- Alex Wissner-Gross – scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur
Zoology
- Roger Arliner Young – first African American woman to receive a PhD in zoology[17]
Honorary members
- Natalie Angier – journalist[18]
- Deborah Blum – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist[18]
- Sherwood Boehlert – member of the United States House of Representatives[18]
- George Brown, Jr. – member of the United States House of Representatives[18]
- Malcolm Browne – photojournalist[18]
- William D. Carey – publisher of Science[18]
- Claudia Dreifus – journalist[18]
- Dennis Flanagan – founding editor of Scientific American[18]
- Ira Flatow – Science Friday host[18]
- Al Gore – Vice President of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize winner[18]
- Sidney Harris – cartoonist[18]
- Brian Hayes – science writer[18]
- Theodore Hesburgh – President Emeritus of the University of Notre Dame[18]
- Jamie Hyneman – MythBusters co-host[18]
- Bill Kurtis – television journalist[18]
- Bob McDonald – journalist[18]
- Dennis Overbye – science writer[18]
- David Price – member of the United States House of Representatives[18]
- David Quammen – science writer[18]
- Paul Raeburn – science writer[18]
- Floyd M. Riddick – Parliamentarian of the United States Senate[18]
- Adam Savage – MythBusters co-host[18]
- David Sington – BBC journalist[18]
- Walter S. Sullivan – New York Times journalist[18]
- Stewart Udall – Secretary of the Interior during John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson administrations[18]
References
- ^ "Associate member Ali Baghchehsara (SX 2013)". Sigma Xi Member in News. Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Society. Jan 2013. Retrieved 2012-11-28.
- ^ "Eugenie Carol Scott". Sigma Xi Emeritus Member Newsletter. Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Society. May 2009. Retrieved 2012-11-28.
- ^ "2001 Assembly of Delegates: Nominees for Northwest Region Director". Sigma Xi Annual Meeting & International Research Conference. Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Society. 2001. Retrieved 2012-11-28.
- ^ "American Scientist, Volumes 9-12,". Sigma Xi Quarterly. XII (3). Easton PA: Society of the Sigma Xi: 148[44]. September 1924. Retrieved March 18, 2013.
- ^ a b c "Stamps Honor Four Scientists". American Scientist. 93 (4). Sigma Xi: 384.
{{cite journal}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ "2008 Rachel Carson Lecture by Peter Raven" (2008). Michigan State University. Retrieved 2012-11-28.
- ^ "Adamson Receives Monie Ferst Award" (PDF). Sigma Xi Today. 9 (1). The Scientific Research Society: 94. January/February 2000. Retrieved 2012-11-27.
{{cite journal}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Mudde, Raggi (November 15, 2011). "Narayan Sadashiv Hosmane: The Life of the Cancer Warrior". Karnataka. Retrieved 2012-11-28.
- ^ a b c d e "National Academy of Engineering Elects 34 Sigma Xi Members". American Scientist. 100 (3): 272. 2012.
{{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter|month=ignored (help) - ^ a b "Nobel Laureates" (2012). Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Society. Retrieved 2012-11-28.
- ^ "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1932: Irving Langmuir". From Nobel Lectures, Chemistry 1922-1941. Elsevier Publishing Company: Amsterdam, 1966. Retrieved 2012-11-28.
- ^ Goertzel, T.G., & Goertzel, B. (1995). Linus Pauling: a life in science and politics. New York: Basic Books. Pages 121-133.
- ^ Gopher Yearbook: Class of 1908 (1908). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota. Page 139.
- ^ "Urey, '34 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry, Speaks at Fogg" (March 31, 1937). The Harvard Crimson online. Retrieved 2012-11-28
- ^ Henry Baldwin Ward, Sigma Xi: Quarter Century History (1886–1911).
- ^ "American Men and Women of Science". Gale Cengage Learning.
- ^ Merry Maisel and Laura Smart (1997). "Lifelong Struggle of a Zoologist". Women in Science: A selection of sixteen significant contributors. The San Diego Supercomputer Center.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y "Honorary Membership". Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Society. 2012. Retrieved 2012-11-28.
External links
- Sigma Xi's "Members in the News"