List of Sigma Pi Sigma members
Sigma Pi Sigma is an American honor society for physics and astronomy.[1][2] It was founded at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina on December 11, 1921.[3] It became a member of the Association of College Honor Societies in 1949.[3]
Notable members
[edit]Following are some of the notable members of Sigma Pi Sigma.
Academia
[edit]- Robert Ashford, law professor at the Syracuse University College of Law[4]
- Stanley S. Ballard, chairman of the Physics Department at Tufts University and the University of Florida[5]
- Vernon D. Crawford, professor, dean, and later interim president at the Georgia Institute of Technology[6]
- Bascom S. Deaver, physicist and professor at the University of Virginia[citation needed]
- Homer L. Dodge, president of Norwich University; chair of the Department of Physics and dean of the Graduate school at the University of Oklahoma[5]
- Virginia Griffing, first woman on the faculty of the physics and chemistry departments at Catholic University of America[7]
- James P. Hamilton, professor in chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Platteville[8]
- Lawrence Paul Horwitz, physicist, mathematician, and professor at the University of Geneva, University of Denver[9]
- Vivian Annabelle Johnson, physicist and professor at Purdue University[10]
- Jean Krisch, theoretical cosmologist and astrophysicist at the University of Michigan[11]
- Dan Lubin, research physicist and senior lecturer at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography[12]
- Floyd K. Richtmyer, professor and dean of the Graduate School at Cornell University[13]
- Willie Rockward, chair of the department of physics and engineering physics at Morgan State University[5]
- Lydia Sohn (2004), professor of mechanical engineering and bio-engineering at the University of California, Berkeley[14]
- S. Lynne Stokes, professor and chair of the Department of Statistical Science at Southern Methodist University[15]
- Michael Duryea Williams, physicist and professor at Clark Atlanta University[16]
- James Edward Young, first black tenured faculty member in the Department of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology[citation needed]
Astronauts
[edit]- Stephen Bowen, United States Navy submariner and a NASA astronaut[17]
- Timothy Creamer, NASA flight director and astronaut[18]
- Roger K. Crouch, NASA astronaut who was the payload specialist on two Space Shuttle missions[19]
- Walter Cunningham, NASA astronaut who was the lunar module pilot on the Apollo 7 mission[20]
- Steven Hawley, NASA astronaut who flew on five Space Shuttle flights[21]
- Kathryn C. Thornton, NASA astronaut[22]
Astronomy
[edit]- Alan Hale, astronomer, co-discoverer of Comet Hale–Bopp
- Robert Hurt, astronomer at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC) of the California Institute of Technology[23]
Literature and journalism
[edit]- C. Dean Andersson, writer of fantasy fiction
- Aryeh Kaplan, Orthodox rabbi, author, and translator best known for his Living Torah edition
Public sector
[edit]- Michael R. Anastasio, director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory and former director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory[24]
- Janet S. Fender, scientific adviser to the commander of Air Combat Command, Langley Air Force Base[25]
- K. Renee Horton (2024), physicist and an Airworthiness Deputy at NASA[26]
- W. Timothy Liu (1970) meteorologist and atmospheric scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory[27]
- John L. McLucas, United States Secretary of the Air Force and Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration[28]
- Amy Simon, planetary scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
- Linton Wells II, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
Private sector
[edit]- H. Dean Brown, physicist who worked for DuPont, the Computer Usage Company, and Zilog
- John Call Cook, geophysicist who played a crucial role in establishing the field of ground-penetrating radar
- Tomas Dy-Liacco, electrical engineer and researcher with the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company[29]
- Rex Geveden, president and CEO of BWX Technologies[30]
- C. Harry Knowles, inventor and founder of Metrologic Instruments[31]
- Yvette Richardson, meteorologist with the VORTEX projects
- Sam Zeller, neutrino physicist at Fermilab
Honorary members
[edit]- Arthur Adel, astronomer and astrophysicist[32]
- Hannes Alfven, electrical engineer, plasma physicist, and Nobel laureate[32]
- William P. Allis, theoretical physicist[32]
- Aziza Baccouche, physicist and science filmmaker[32]
- Robert Ballard, US Navy officer and professor of oceanography[32]
- John Bardeen, electrical engineer and theoretical physicist[32]
- Barry Barish, experimental physicist and Nobel Laureate[32]
- Henry H. Barschall, physicist with the University of Kansas, and then at the Manhattan Project[32]
- Benjamin Bederson, physicist with the Manhattan Project and Massachusetts Institute of Technology; dean at New York University[32]
- Charles P. Boner, mathematician and academic[32]
- Patrick Brady, United States Navy rear admiral[32]
- Walter Houser Brattain, physicist who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics[32]
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell, astrophysicist who discovered the first radio pulsars; chancellor of the University of Dundee[32]
- Yang Chen-Ning, theoretical physicist who shared the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics[32]
- Eric Allin Cornell, physicist who shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics[32]
- John P. Craven, chief scientist of the Special Projects Office of the United States Navy[32]
- Karl K. Darrow, physicist with Western Electric and Bell Laboratories[32]
- Persis Drell, dean of the Stanford School of Engineering and director of the US Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory[32]
- Mildred Dresselhaus, professor of physics and electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology[32]
- Lee Alvin DuBridge, president of the California Institute of Technology[32]
- Freeman Dyson, theoretical physicist, mathematician, and professor emeritus in the Institute for Advanced Study[33]
- William M. Fairbank, professor of physics and Stanford University[32]
- Harvey Fletcher, physicist, known as the "father of stereophonic sound"[32]
- Sigfried Flugge, theoretical physicist[32]
- Paul D. Foote, director of research and executive vice president of the Gulf Research & Development; Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering[32]
- Felice Frankel, scientific photographer[32]
- Sylvester James Gates, theoretical physicist; professor of physics and Theoretical Physics Center director at Brown University[32]
- Richard Garwin, physicist known as the author of the first hydrogen bomb design[32]
- John M. Grunsfeld, NASA astronaut and NASA Chief Scientist[33]
- Eugene Guth, physicist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory[32]
- Gaylord Harnwell, physicist and president of the University of Pennsylvania[32]
- George R. Harrison, professor of experimental physics and dean of science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology[32]
- Banesh Hoffman, mathematician and physicist known for his association with Albert Einstein[32]
- K. Renee Horton, physicist and an Airworthiness Deputy at NASA[32]
- J. Allen Hynek, astronomer, professor, and ufologist[32]
- Ernst Ising, professor of physics at Bradley University[32]
- John Johnson, astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at Harvard University[33]
- Donald William Kerst, physicist who worked on advanced particle accelerator concepts[32]
- Young-Kee Kim, professor of physics at the University of Chicago[32]
- Paul E. Klopsteg, physicist and director of research at Northwestern University Technical Institution[32]
- Serge Alexander Korff, physicist and a pioneer of cosmic ray research[32]
- Polykarp Kusch, physicist who shared the 1955 Nobel Prize in Physics[32]
- Cornelius Lanczos, mathematician and physicist[32]
- Edwin H. Land, co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation[32]
- Neal Francis Lane, physicist, chancellor of the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, and provost and professor at Rice University[32] Lederman[32]
- Alan P. Lightman, physicist, writer, and novelist[32]
- Robert Bruce Lindsay, chairman of the physics department and dean of the graduate school Brown University[32]
- Per-Olov Lowdin, physicist and professor at the University of Uppsala[32]
- John C. Mather, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite[32]
- John Marburger, president of Stony Brook University and director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy[32]
- John W. Mitchell, Academy Awards-nominated sound engineer[32]
- Karl Z. Morgan, director of health physics at Oak Ridge National Laboratory[32]
- Lloyd Motz, astronomer[32]
- Margaret Murnane, professor of physics at the University of Colorado Boulder[32]
- Homer E. Newell Jr., administrator at NASA[32]
- Alfred O. C. Nier, physicist who pioneered the development of mass spectrometry[32]
- A. Ray Oplin, president of the University of Utah[32]
- Ernst Opik, astronomer and astrophysicist at the Armagh Observatory[32]
- Douglas Osheroff, physicist who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics[32]
- Linus Pauling, chemical engineer who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954[32]
- Melba Newell Phillips, professor of physics at the University of Chicago[32]
- William Daniel Phillips, physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997[32]
- William G. Pollard, executive director of the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies[32]
- Martin A. Pomerantz, director of the Bartol Research Institute[32]
- Herman Postma, laboratory director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory[32]
- Norman Ramsey Jr., physicist who received the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics[32]
- Mercedes Richards, astronomy and astrophysics professor[33]
- Floyd K. Richtmyer, professor of physics and dean of the graduate school at Cornell University[32]
- John S. Rigden, physicist and editor[32]
- Walter Orr Roberts, founder of the National Center for Atmospheric Research[32]
- Eric M. Rogers, physics educator and textbook author[32]
- Stuart Roosa, NASA astronaut, who was the Command Module pilot for the Apollo 14 mission[32]
- Arthur Edward Ruark, physicist and academic known for his role in the development of quantum mechanics[32]
- Vera Rubin, astronomer who pioneered work on galaxy rotation rates[32]
- David Saltzberg, science consultant for film and television[33]
- Vincent Schaefer, chemist and meteorologist who developed cloud seeding[32]
- Roland W. Schmitt, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute[32]
- John Robert Schrieffer, physicist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics[32]
- Emilio Segrè, physicist who shared the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics[32]
- Robert S. Shankland, professor physics at Case School for Applied Sciences[32]
- Harlan True Stetson. director of the Perkins Observatory[32]
- James H. Stith, former vice president of the Physics Resource Center at the American Institute of Physics[34][32]
- Verner E. Suomi, the father of satellite meteorology[32]
- Jill Tarter, former director of the Center for SETI Research at the SETI Institute[32]
- Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr., co-recipient of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics[32]
- Gordon Kidd Teal, engineer who developed the first silicon transistor while at Texas Instruments[32]
- Kip Thorne, theoretical physicist and writer who won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics[32]
- Virginia Louise Trimble, astronomer[32]
- James Trefil, author and professor of physics at the University of Virginia and George Mason University[32]
- Neil Turok, chair of theoretical physics at the University of Edinburgh[32]
- Jami Valentine, patent examiner at the United States Patent and Trademark Office[32]
- James Van Allen, space physicist at the University of Iowa[32]
- Jearl Walker, physicist, professor, and author[32]
- Alvin M. Weinberg, nuclear physicist who was the administrator of Oak Ridge National Laboratory[32]
- Carl Wieman, physicist and educationist at Stanford University and Cornell University[32]
- Gary White, co-founder of WaterPartners[32]
- Harvey Elliott White, physicist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley[32]
- Ellen D. Williams, chief scientist of BP[32]
- Clarence Zener, theoretical physicist[32]
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