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

Following are some of the notable members of Sigma Pi Sigma.

Academia

• 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

• 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

• 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

• C. Dean Andersson, writer of fantasy fiction
• Aryeh Kaplan, Orthodox rabbi, author, and translator best known for his Living Torah edition

Public sector

• 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

• 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

• 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]