List of Sigma Xi members
This is a list of notable members of the science and engineering honor society Sigma Xi.Aerospace
- Ali Baghchehsara Vice President of Solar Maximum Co. and coauthor of Electric Space: Space-Based Solar Power Technologies & Applications
- 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 - American 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
Botany
- Don G. Despain flora of Yellowstone National Park specialist
- Edwin Earle Honey 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
- Julia Warner Snow American systematic phycologist and instructor.
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, American Chemical Society President, Breaking Bad science advisor.
- 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
- Alan V. Oppenheim Developed the field of digital signal processing and member of the National Academy of Engineering
Entomology
- Anna Botsford Comstock insect illustrator, leader in the nature study movement, and 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
- Rahul Pandit condensed matter physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
- Andrea Prosperetti multiphase flow researcher
Zoology
- Roger Arliner Young first African American woman to receive a PhD in zoology
- William Rees Brebner Robertson - American zoologist and early cytogeneticist who discovered the chromosomal rearrangement named in his honour, Robertsonian translocation
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
