Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society
Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society
FRATERNAL ORGANIZATION
Founded in 1886 at Cornell University.
Official Website:
http://www.sigmaxi.org/
Founding Date:
1886
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roger Adams | Chemist | 2-Jan-1889 | 6-Jul-1971 | Organic chemist at Illinois |
| Howard Aiken | Physicist | 8-Mar-1900 | 14-Mar-1973 | Designer of early computers |
| Luis W. Alvarez | Physicist | 13-Jun-1911 | 1-Sep-1988 | Particle accelerator, extinction of dinosaurs |
| Carl David Anderson | Physicist | 3-Sep-1905 | 11-Jan-1991 | Discovered the positron, mu-meson |
| Isaac Asimov | Author | 2-Jan-1920 | 6-Apr-1992 | Foundation |
| Norman Augustine | Business | 27-Jul-1935 | CEO of Martin Marietta, 1987-97 | |
| Julius Axelrod | Chemist | 30-May-1912 | 29-Dec-2004 | Research of neurotransmitters |
| Horace W. Babcock | Astronomer | 13-Sep-1912 | 29-Aug-2003 | Adaptive optics and the Babcock Model |
| Leo Baekeland | Scientist | 14-Nov-1863 | 23-Feb-1944 | Father of plastics |
| Bill Bass | Scientist | 30-Aug-1928 | Human decomposition | |
| Doug Bereuter | Politician | 6-Oct-1939 | Congressman from Nebraska, 1979-2004 | |
| Frederick M. Bernthal | Administrator | 10-Jan-1943 | President, Universities Research Association | |
| Norman Borlaug | Scientist | 25-Mar-1914 | 12-Sep-2009 | Engineered disease-resistant wheat |
| Gregory Breit | Physicist | 14-Jul-1899 | 11-Sep-1981 | Proton-proton dispersion |
| Wallace R. Brode | Chemist | 12-Jun-1900 | 10-Aug-1974 | Absorption spectra of dyes |
| Dirk Brouwer | Astronomer | 1-Sep-1902 | 31-Jan-1966 | Celestial mechanics |
| John S. Chen | Business | 1-Jul-1955 | CEO of Sybase | |
| Thomas W. Cole, Jr. | Educator | c. 1941 | President of Clark Atlanta, 1989-2002 | |
| William D. Coolidge | Physicist | 23-Oct-1873 | 4-Feb-1975 | Tungsten filaments and Coolidge tubes |
| Leon N. Cooper | Physicist | 28-Feb-1930 | BCS Theory of Superconductivity | |
| France A. Córdova | Educator | 5-Aug-1947 | President, Purdue University | |
| Frederick G. Cottrell | Inventor | 10-Jan-1877 | 16-Nov-1948 | Smokestack filters to fight pollution |
| George A. Cowan | Physicist | 15-Feb-1920 | 20-Apr-2012 | Founder, Santa Fe Institute |
| Robert F. Curl, Jr. | Chemist | 23-Aug-1933 | Co-Discovered fullerines | |
| Brady J. Deaton | Educator | c. 1944 | President, University of Missouri | |
| Michael DeBakey | Doctor | 7-Sep-1908 | 11-Jul-2008 | Father of cardiovascular surgery |
| Johann Deisenhofer | Chemist | 30-Sep-1943 | Proteins of photosynthesis | |
| Nicholas M. Donofrio | Business | 7-Sep-1945 | EVP at IBM | |
| Gerald M. Edelman | Scientist | 1-Jul-1929 | 17-May-2014 | Chemical structure of antibodies |
| Doug Engelbart | Computer Programmer | 30-Jan-1925 | 2-Jul-2013 | Pioneer of human-computer interaction |
| Thomas E. Everhart | Physicist | 15-Feb-1932 | President of CalTech, 1987-97 | |
| Marye Anne Fox | Educator | 9-Dec-1947 | Chancellor, UC San Diego | |
| Joseph S. Francisco | Chemist | 1955 | Atmospheric chemist | |
| Richard Freeman | Economist | 29-Jun-1943 | Labor economist | |
| Edward A. Frieman | Physicist | 19-Jan-1926 | 11-Apr-2013 | Director of Scripps, 1986-96 |
| John W. Gardner | Administrator | 8-Oct-1912 | 16-Feb-2002 | Founder of Common Cause |
| Owen K. Garriott | Astronaut | 22-Nov-1930 | Skylab, Spacelab astronaut | |
| Murray Gell-Mann | Physicist | 15-Sep-1929 | Quarks and strangeness | |
| Sheldon Glashow | Physicist | 5-Dec-1932 | Electroweak Theory | |
| Robert Goddard | Scientist | 5-Oct-1882 | 10-Aug-1945 | Father of modern rocketry |
| Richard J. Goldstein | Engineer | c. 1936 | Fluid mechanics | |
| Mary L. Good | Educator | 20-Jun-1931 | Donaghey Professor, U. Arkansas | |
| Stephen Jay Gould | Biologist | 10-Sep-1941 | 20-May-2002 | Evolutionary scientist |
| Patrick W. Gross | Business | 15-May-1944 | Co-Founder, American Management Systems | |
| Frederick A. Halsey | Engineer | 12-Jul-1856 | 20-Oct-1935 | Kept America safe from the metric system |
| Theodor W. Hänsch | Physicist | 30-Oct-1941 | Quantum optics | |
| Martin Hellman | Inventor | 2-Oct-1945 | Public key cryptographer | |
| Richard Herman | Educator | c. 1941 | Chancellor, UI Urbana-Champaign | |
| Melville J. Herskovits | Anthropologist | 10-Sep-1895 | 25-Feb-1963 | The Myth of the Negro Past |
| James Hillier | Physicist | 22-Aug-1915 | 15-Jan-2007 | Electron microscope |
| Robert Hofstadter | Physicist | 5-Feb-1915 | 17-Nov-1990 | Size, shape, and structure of neutrons and protons |
| Grace Murray Hopper | Computer Programmer | 9-Dec-1906 | 1-Jan-1992 | Computer programming pioneer |
| Shirley A. Jackson | Physicist | 5-Aug-1946 | NRC Chairman, 1995-99 | |
| Irwin M. Jacobs | Business | 18-Oct-1933 | Co-Founder of Qualcomm | |
| William M. Jardine | Educator | 16-Jan-1879 | 17-Jan-1955 | US Secretary of Agriculture, 1925-29 |
| Kelly Johnson | Engineer | 27-Feb-1910 | 21-Dec-1990 | Lockheed Skunk Works plane designer |
| Percy Julian | Chemist | 11-Apr-1899 | 19-Apr-1975 | Physostigmine and cortisone |
| Joseph M. Juran | Scientist | 24-Dec-1904 | 28-Feb-2008 | The Pareto Principle |
| Donald E. Knuth | Computer Programmer | 10-Jan-1938 | The Art of Computer Programming | |
| William I. Koch | Business | 3-May-1940 | Koch Industries | |
| Robert H. Krieble | Philanthropist | 1916 | 8-May-1997 | Loctite Corporation |
| Bill Kurtis | Journalist | 21-Sep-1940 | Shoulder-shrugging host of American Justice | |
| Robert B. Leighton | Astronomer | 10-Sep-1919 | 9-Mar-1997 | Leighton dishes |
| Arnold J. Levine | Biologist | 1939 | Cancer researcher | |
| William Lipscomb | Chemist | 9-Dec-1919 | 14-Apr-2011 | Chemical bonding |
| Salvador Luria | Biologist | 13-Aug-1912 | 6-Feb-1991 | Natural selection in bacteria |
| Benoit Mandelbrot | Mathematician | 20-Nov-1924 | 14-Oct-2010 | Fractal mathematician |
| William E. Mayberry | Business | 22-Aug-1929 | Former President, Mayo Foundation | |
| John McCarthy | Computer Programmer | 4-Sep-1927 | 24-Oct-2011 | Created LISP programming language |
| Barbara McClintock | Scientist | 16-Jun-1902 | 2-Sep-1992 | Discovered transposable genes |
| Edwin M. McMillan | Physicist | 18-Sep-1907 | 7-Sep-1991 | Discovered neptunium and plutonium |
| James R. Mellor | Business | 3-May-1930 | CEO of General Dynamics, 1994-97 | |
| Bruce Merrifield | Chemist | 15-Jul-1921 | 14-May-2006 | Synthesized polypeptides |
| Thomas Midgley | Chemist | 18-May-1889 | 2-Nov-1944 | Ethyl gasoline, Freon |
| Ei-ichi Negishi | Chemist | 14-Jul-1935 | Palladium-catalyzed cross couplings | |
| Arun Netravali | Business | 26-May-1946 | Chief Scientist at Lucent, 2002-03 | |
| Jane Margaret O'Brien | Educator | c. 1953 | President, St. Mary's College of Maryland | |
| Gilbert S. Omenn | Business | 30-Aug-1941 | Professor, University of Michigan | |
| William D. Phillips | Physicist | 5-Nov-1948 | Trapped atoms with laser light | |
| James D. Plummer | Educator | 3-Dec-1944 | Dean of Stanford's Engineering School | |
| Franklyn G. Prendergast | Doctor | 7-Mar-1945 | Mayo Clinic | |
| Frederick Reines | Physicist | 16-Mar-1918 | 26-Aug-1998 | Co-Discover of the neutrino |
| Albert Sabin | Biologist | 26-Aug-1906 | 3-Mar-1993 | Developed oral polio vaccine |
| Jack Schmitt | Astronaut | 3-Jul-1935 | 12th Man on the Moon | |
| Rusty Schweickart | Astronaut | 25-Oct-1935 | Apollo 9 Lunar Module pilot | |
| David Scott | Astronaut | 6-Jun-1932 | Commander, Apollo 15 | |
| Glenn Seaborg | Physicist | 19-Apr-1912 | 25-Feb-1999 | Co-Discoverer of Plutonium |
| Claude Shannon | Scientist | 30-Apr-1916 | 24-Feb-2001 | Pioneer in information theory |
| Judith Shapiro | Educator | 24-Jan-1942 | President, Barnard College | |
| Harlow Shapley | Astronomer | 2-Nov-1885 | 20-Oct-1972 | Organizer of Heaven |
| Robert N. Shelton | Educator | 1948 | President, University of Arizona | |
| Richard E. Smalley | Chemist | 6-Jun-1943 | 28-Oct-2005 | Co-Discovered fullerines |
| George E. Smith | Scientist | 10-May-1930 | Digital photography | |
| Theobald Smith | Scientist | 31-Jul-1859 | 10-Dec-1934 | Infectious and parasitic diseases |
| Alfred Sommer | Doctor | 1942 | SPH Dean at Johns Hopkins, 1990-2005 | |
| Gene Spafford | Computer Programmer | c. 1957 | Spaf | |
| Philip Sporn | Engineer | 25-Nov-1896 | 23-Jan-1978 | American Electric Power Company |
| William H. Stein | Chemist | 25-Jun-1911 | 2-Feb-1980 | Amino-acid analyzer |
| James B. Sumner | Chemist | 19-Nov-1887 | 12-Aug-1955 | Crystallized enzymes |
| Earl W. Sutherland, Jr. | Scientist | 19-Nov-1915 | 9-Mar-1974 | Hormones mechanisms (cyclic AMP) |
| Henry Taube | Chemist | 30-Nov-1915 | 16-Nov-2005 | Mechanisms of electron transfer |
| Charles H. Townes | Physicist | 28-Jul-1915 | 27-Jan-2015 | Invention of the maser and laser |
| James Van Allen | Astronomer | 7-Sep-1914 | 9-Aug-2006 | Discovered the Van Allen Belt |
| George Wald | Biologist | 18-Nov-1906 | 12-Apr-1997 | Physiology of the retina |
| George H. Whipple | Scientist | 28-Aug-1878 | 2-Feb-1976 | Bile, hemoglobin, and the liver |
| John A. White | Business | c. 1940 | Chancellor, University of Arkansas | |
| Robert Woodrow Wilson | Astronomer | 10-Jan-1936 | Detected primordial radiation | |
| Joe B. Wyatt | Educator | c. 1935 | Chancellor of Vanderbilt University, 1982-2000 | |
| Ahmed H. Zewail | Chemist | 26-Feb-1946 | Femtochemistry |
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