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Official Website: <a href="http://www.sigmaxi.org/">http://www.sigmaxi.org/</a> Founding Date: 1886<table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_actors"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/000/000117646/">Roger Adams</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jan-1889</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jul-1971</tt></td> <td>Organic chemist at Illinois</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/397/000252638/">Howard Aiken</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Mar-1900</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Mar-1973</tt></td> <td>Designer of early computers</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/803/000099506/">Luis W. Alvarez</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Jun-1911</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Sep-1988</tt></td> <td>Particle accelerator, extinction of dinosaurs</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/733/000099436/">Carl David Anderson</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Sep-1905</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Jan-1991</tt></td> <td>Discovered the positron, mu-meson</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/702/000023633/">Isaac Asimov</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jan-1920</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Apr-1992</tt></td> <td>Foundation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/601/000052445/">Norman Augustine</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Jul-1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of Martin Marietta, 1987-97</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/983/000113644/">Julius Axelrod</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-May-1912</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Dec-2004</tt></td> <td>Research of neurotransmitters</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/081/000167577/">Horace W. Babcock</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Sep-1912</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Aug-2003</tt></td> <td>Adaptive optics and the Babcock Model</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/363/000094081/">Leo Baekeland</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Nov-1863</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Feb-1944</tt></td> <td>Father of plastics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/714/000031621/">Bill Bass</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Aug-1928</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Human decomposition</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/362/000032266/">Doug Bereuter</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Oct-1939</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Congressman from Nebraska, 1979-2004</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/268/000172749/">Frederick M. Bernthal</a></td> <td><center>Administrator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jan-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, Universities Research Association</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/662/000022596/">Norman Borlaug</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Mar-1914</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Sep-2009</tt></td> <td>Engineered disease-resistant wheat</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/957/000117606/">Gregory Breit</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Jul-1899</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Sep-1981</tt></td> <td>Proton-proton dispersion</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/269/000172750/">Wallace R. Brode</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Jun-1900</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Aug-1974</tt></td> <td>Absorption spectra of dyes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/537/000168033/">Dirk Brouwer</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Sep-1902</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Jan-1966</tt></td> <td>Celestial mechanics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/369/000127985/">John S. Chen</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jul-1955</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of Sybase</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/037/000128650/">Thomas W. Cole, Jr.</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President of Clark Atlanta, 1989-2002</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/950/000167449/">William D. Coolidge</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Oct-1873</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Feb-1975</tt></td> <td>Tungsten filaments and Coolidge tubes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/854/000099557/">Leon N. Cooper</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Feb-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>BCS Theory of Superconductivity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/960/000165465/">France A. Córdova</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Aug-1947</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, Purdue University</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/135/000130742/">Frederick G. Cottrell</a></td> <td><center>Inventor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jan-1877</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Nov-1948</tt></td> <td>Smokestack filters to fight pollution</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/206/000165708/">George A. Cowan</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Feb-1920</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Apr-2012</tt></td> <td>Founder, Santa Fe Institute</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/798/000100498/">Robert F. Curl, Jr.</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Aug-1933</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Co-Discovered fullerines</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/004/000165506/">Brady J. Deaton</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1944</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, University of Missouri</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/241/000027160/">Michael DeBakey</a></td> <td><center>Doctor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Sep-1908</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Jul-2008</tt></td> <td>Father of cardiovascular surgery</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/706/000100406/">Johann Deisenhofer</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Sep-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Proteins of photosynthesis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/892/000127511/">Nicholas M. Donofrio</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Sep-1945</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>EVP at IBM</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/094/000130701/">Gerald M. Edelman</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jul-1929</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-May-2014</tt></td> <td>Chemical structure of antibodies</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/131/000026053/">Doug Engelbart</a></td> <td><center>Computer Programmer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Jan-1925</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jul-2013</tt></td> <td>Pioneer of human-computer interaction</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/230/000165732/">Thomas E. Everhart</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Feb-1932</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President of CalTech, 1987-97</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/107/000165609/">Marye Anne Fox</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Dec-1947</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Chancellor, UC San Diego</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/406/000227722/">Joseph S. Francisco</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1955</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Atmospheric chemist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/454/000166953/">Richard Freeman</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Jun-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Labor economist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/122/000366021/">Edward A. Frieman</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Jan-1926</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Apr-2013</tt></td> <td>Director of Scripps, 1986-96</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/463/000167959/">John W. Gardner</a></td> <td><center>Administrator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Oct-1912</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Feb-2002</tt></td> <td>Founder of Common Cause</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/235/000137821/">Owen K. Garriott</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Nov-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Skylab, Spacelab astronaut</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/310/000023241/">Murray Gell-Mann</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Sep-1929</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Quarks and strangeness</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/942/000099645/">Sheldon Glashow</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Dec-1932</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Electroweak Theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/368/000094086/">Robert Goddard</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Oct-1882</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Aug-1945</tt></td> <td>Father of modern rocketry</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/890/000169383/">Richard J. Goldstein</a></td> <td><center>Engineer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Fluid mechanics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/099/000165601/">Mary L. Good</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Jun-1931</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Donaghey Professor, U. Arkansas</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/641/000024569/">Stephen Jay Gould</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Sep-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-May-2002</tt></td> <td>Evolutionary scientist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/368/000127984/">Patrick W. Gross</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-May-1944</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Co-Founder, American Management Systems</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/056/000169546/">Frederick A. Halsey</a></td> <td><center>Engineer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Jul-1856</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Oct-1935</tt></td> <td>Kept America safe from the metric system</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/795/000138381/">Theodor W. Hänsch</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Oct-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Quantum optics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/407/000028323/">Martin Hellman</a></td> <td><center>Inventor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Oct-1945</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Public key cryptographer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/017/000165519/">Richard Herman</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Chancellor, UI Urbana-Champaign</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/200/000213558/">Melville J. Herskovits</a></td> <td><center>Anthropologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Sep-1895</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Feb-1963</tt></td> <td>The Myth of the Negro Past</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/125/000206504/">James Hillier</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Aug-1915</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jan-2007</tt></td> <td>Electron microscope</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/318/000072102/">Robert Hofstadter</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Feb-1915</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Nov-1990</tt></td> <td>Size, shape, and structure of neutrons and protons</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/660/000098366/">Grace Murray Hopper</a></td> <td><center>Computer Programmer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Dec-1906</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jan-1992</tt></td> <td>Computer programming pioneer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/668/000061485/">Shirley A. Jackson</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Aug-1946</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>NRC Chairman, 1995-99</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/317/000168810/">Irwin M. Jacobs</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Oct-1933</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Co-Founder of Qualcomm</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/518/000168014/">William M. Jardine</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Jan-1879</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Jan-1955</tt></td> <td>US Secretary of Agriculture, 1925-29</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/892/000202286/">Kelly Johnson</a></td> <td><center>Engineer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Feb-1910</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Dec-1990</tt></td> <td>Lockheed Skunk Works plane designer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/957/000160477/">Percy Julian</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Apr-1899</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Apr-1975</tt></td> <td>Physostigmine and cortisone</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/622/000169115/">Joseph M. Juran</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Dec-1904</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Feb-2008</tt></td> <td>The Pareto Principle</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/571/000023502/">Donald E. Knuth</a></td> <td><center>Computer Programmer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jan-1938</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The Art of Computer Programming</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/859/000352800/">William I. Koch</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-May-1940</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Koch Industries</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/891/000162405/">Robert H. Krieble</a></td> <td><center>Philanthropist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1916</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-May-1997</tt></td> <td>Loctite Corporation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/658/000024586/">Bill Kurtis</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Sep-1940</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Shoulder-shrugging host of American Justice</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/060/000170547/">Robert B. Leighton</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Sep-1919</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Mar-1997</tt></td> <td>Leighton dishes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/991/000126613/">Arnold J. Levine</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1939</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Cancer researcher</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/601/000100301/">William Lipscomb</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Dec-1919</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Apr-2011</tt></td> <td>Chemical bonding</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/568/000082322/">Salvador Luria</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Aug-1912</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Feb-1991</tt></td> <td>Natural selection in bacteria</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/752/000022686/">Benoit Mandelbrot</a></td> <td><center>Mathematician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Nov-1924</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Oct-2010</tt></td> <td>Fractal mathematician</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/036/000178499/">William E. Mayberry</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Aug-1929</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Former President, Mayo Foundation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/006/000030913/">John McCarthy</a></td> <td><center>Computer Programmer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Sep-1927</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Oct-2011</tt></td> <td>Created LISP programming language</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/011/000083759/">Barbara McClintock</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Jun-1902</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Sep-1992</tt></td> <td>Discovered transposable genes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/448/000100148/">Edwin M. McMillan</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Sep-1907</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Sep-1991</tt></td> <td>Discovered neptunium and plutonium</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/407/000171891/">James R. Mellor</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-May-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of General Dynamics, 1994-97</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/647/000100347/">Bruce Merrifield</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jul-1921</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-May-2006</tt></td> <td>Synthesized polypeptides</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/727/000205112/">Thomas Midgley</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-May-1889</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Nov-1944</tt></td> <td>Ethyl gasoline, Freon</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/944/000254182/">Ei-ichi Negishi</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Jul-1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Palladium-catalyzed cross couplings</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/337/000168830/">Arun Netravali</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-May-1946</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Chief Scientist at Lucent, 2002-03</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/539/000129152/">Jane Margaret O'Brien</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1953</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President, St. Mary's College of Maryland</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/580/000128196/">Gilbert S. Omenn</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Aug-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Professor, University of Michigan</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/067/000099767/">William D. Phillips</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Nov-1948</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Trapped atoms with laser light</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/071/000124696/">James D. Plummer</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Dec-1944</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Dean of Stanford's Engineering School</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/447/000169937/">Franklyn G. 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