List of Sigma Xi members

This is a list of notable members of the science and engineering honor society Sigma Xi.

Academia

 * Blake R. Van Leer – United States Army officer and president of Georgia Institute of Technology
 * Eduardo Suger – Swiss-Guatemalan educator and founder of Galileo University
 * 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

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

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
 * 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

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

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