# 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.
* Lois Lampe – American botanist and educator. Professor Emerita, The Ohio State University.
* 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
* Eduardo Suger – Swiss-Guatemalan educator and founder of Galileo University
* Blake R. Van Leer – United States Army officer and president of Georgia Institute of Technology
* Jeffrey Vitter – Computer scientist and 17th chancellor of the University of Mississippi

## Aerospace

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

## Biology
### Botany

* Don G. Despain – flora of Yellowstone National Park specialist
* Edwin Earle Honey (1891–1956) – American plant pathologist and mycologist
* Hu Hsen-Hsu (1894–1968) – Founder of plant taxonomy in China
* 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.

### 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

### 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
* 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
* William Rees Brebner Robertson - American zoologist and early cytogeneticist who discovered the chromosomal rearrangement named in his honour, Robertsonian translocation
* Florence Wells Slater - American entomologist

## Chemistry

* Arthur W. Adamson – inorganic photochemistry pioneer
* Arthur A. Noyes - Chemist and inventor
* 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 (ACS) President (2016), Breaking Bad science advisor (2008-2013).
* 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

## Economics

* Kenneth Arrow – Nobel Prize in Economics winner
* Herbert A. Simon – political scientist, Nobel Prize in Economics winner
* John Forbes Nash Jr. mathematician, Nobel Prize in Economics winner
* Robert C. Merton – Nobel Prize in Economics winner
* Myron S. Scholes – Nobel Prize in Economics winner
* Daniel Kahneman – psychologist, Nobel Prize in Economics winner
* Lloyd S. Shapley mathematician – Nobel Prize in Economics
* William D. Nordhaus – Nobel Prize in Economics winner

## 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
* Alan V. Oppenheim – Developed the field of digital signal processing and member of the National Academy of Engineering

### 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 - American Geologist of Indian origin and expert in fossils.

## 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
* Cornelia Strong – professor of mathematics and astronomy

## 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
* Andrea Ghez - astrophysicist, Nobel Prize in Physics winner
* Mustapha Ishak Boushaki – gravitational lensing and universe expansion physicist, University of Texas at Dallas
* Ernest Merritt – Dean of the Graduate School, Cornell University
* Robert A. Millikan - Nobel Prize in Physics winner, president of Caltech
* Rahul Pandit – condensed matter physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
* Andrea Prosperetti – multiphase flow researcher

## Psychology

* Marie Skodak Crissey – developmental psychologist, served as president of two divisions of the American Psychological Association

## 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
* Clinton Sumner Burns – civil engineer
* William D. Carey – publisher of Science
* Barbara Culliton – science journalist and editor
* 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
* Robert Dillard Teer Jr. – Real Estate Developer and General Contractor
* Stewart Udall – Secretary of the Interior during John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson administrations