List of Iota Sigma Pi members

Iota Sigma Pi is an American honor society for women in the sciences, especially chemistry.^[1] It was created by the merger of three chemistry honor societies for women that were established in the early 20th century.^[2] Following are some of the society's notable members.

Notable members

Name	Chapter	Notability	References
Carolyn Bertozzi		chemist and winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry	[3]
Emmanuelle Charpentier		microbiologist, biochemist, and co-winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry	[3]
Lillian Cohen		inorganic chemist	[4]
Zada Mary Cooper		pharmacist and professor at the University of Iowa	[5]
Jennifer Doudna		chemist and co-winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry	[3]
Kathryn Ferguson Fink		biochemist	[6]
Ruby Hirose	Cincinnati	biochemist and bacteriologist	[7]
Allene Jeanes		chemical researcher	[8]
Joan Priscilla Kilbourn		microbiologist and educator	[9]
Nell I. Mondy	University of Texas at Austin	biochemist	[10]
Jin Kim Montclare		biomolecular engineer
Agnes Fay Morgan	Hydrogen	chair of the home economics program at the University of California	[11]
Nina Roscher	Purdue	chemist
Glenola Rose		chemist
Diane Grob Schmidt	Radium	chemist	[12]
Dorothy Martin Simon		physical chemist
Paola S. Timiras		endocrinologist	[13]
Hoylande Young		chemist	[14]

Honorary members

The highest award from Iota Sigma Pi is the National Honorary Member which is given to female chemists who have made an exceptional and significant achievement in the field.^[15][16]

Name	Year	Notability	References
Frances Arnold	2020	chemical engineer and winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry	[11]
Bridgette Barry	1999	biophysicist and biochemist	[11]
Ruth R. Benerito	1975	scientist and inventor	[11]
Jeanette Grasselli Brown	1987	chemist	[11]
Emma P. Carr	1945	chair of the chemistry department at Mount Holyoke College	[11]
Mildred Cohn	1988	biochemist	[11]
Gerty Cori	1949	biochemist and winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine	[11]
Marie Curie	1921	physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity, co-winner of the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics, and winner of the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry	[11]
Helen Dyer	1972	biochemist	[11]
Gladys Anderson Emerson	1966	historian, biochemist, and nutritionist	[11]
Barbara J. Finlayson-Pitts	2017	atmospheric chemist	[11]
Edith M. Flanigen	1986	chemist	[11]
Rosalind Franklin	1982	x-ray crystallographer	[11]
Helen Murray Free	1978	chemist and educator	[11]
Ellen Gleditsch	1929	radiochemist	[11]
Mary L. Good	1983	inorganic chemist	[11]
Vicki Grassian	2020	chemist	[11]
Icie Hoobler	1949	biochemist	[11]
Dorothy Hodgkin	1966	chemist and 1964 winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry	[11]
Darleane C. Hoffman	1933	nuclear chemist	[11]
Marjorie G. Horning	1985	biochemist and pharmacologist	[11]
Susan M. Kauzlarich	2011	chemist	[11]
Ines Mandl	1979	biochemist	[11]
Janet G. Osteryoung	1990	chemist	[11]
Mary Engle Pennington	1940	bacteriological chemist and refrigeration engineer	[11]
Gertrude Perlmann	1969	biochemist and structural biologist	[11]
Florence R. Sabin	1935	medical scientist	[11]
Florence B. Seibert	1942	biochemist	[11]
Jean'ne Shreeve	1984	chemist	[11]
Betty Sullivan	1972	biochemist	[11]
Patricia Thiel	2008	surface chemist	[11]
Lidia Vallarino	1996	inorganic chemist who was chemistry lecturer at the University of Milan	[11]
Elizabeth Weisburger	1981	chemist	[11]
Angela K. Wilson	2023	professor in the Department of Chemistry of Michigan State University	[11]

See also

• List of Iota Sigma Pi chapters