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Graduate Women in Science formerly known as Sigma Delta Epsilon, is an international organization for women in science. It was established in 1921 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, United States as a women's fraternity. Following are some of its notable members. Membership includes graduate students in the sciences, alumnae, and honorary members. The later are professional women who had achieved recognition in the science.

Name Chapter and year Notability References
Isabella Abbott Honorary, 2001 Phycologist and ethnobotanist at Stanford University
Ruth M. Addoms Botanist at Duke University
Virginia Apgar Honorary, 1971 Physician, obstetrical anesthesiologist, medical researcher, and inventor of the Apgar score
Beulah Armstrong Gamma, 1924 Mathematician and professor at the University of Illinois
Carrie Adeline Barbour Iota, 1927 Assistant professor and assistant curator of paleontology

at the University of Nebraska State Museum

Lela Viola Barton Honorary, 1964 Botanist with the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research
Raven Baxter Honorary, 2023 Science communicator and STEM educator
Emma Benn Biostatistician, professor, and dean at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
May Berenbaum Honorary, 2017 Entomologist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Lynne Billard Honorary, 1995 Statistician and professor at the University of Georgia
Katharine Burr Blodgett Honorary, 1951 Physicist and chemist with General Electric
Louise Arner Boyd Honorary, 1959 Explorer of Greenland and the Arctic
Hazel Branch Alpha, 1921 Entomologist and head of the Department of Zoology

at Wichita State University

Jean Brenchley Honorary, 1986 Microbiologist and professor at the Pennsylvania State University and Purdue University
Mary Bunting Honorary, 1963 Microbiologist, geneticist, and president of Radcliffe College
Margaret Burbidge Honorary, 1985 Observational astronomer and astrophysicist
Helen Calkins Mathematician and professor at the Pennsylvania College for Women
Margery C. Carlson Honorary, 1978 Botanist and a professor at Northwestern University
Annie Jump Cannon Honorary, 1931 Astronomer who co-created the Harvard Classification Scheme,
Margery C. Carlson Honorary, 1978 Botanist and professor at Northwestern University
Emma P. Carr Honorary, 1934 Spectroscopist and chair of the chemistry department at Mount Holyoke College
Marjorie Caserio Honorary, 1980 Chemist and professor at the University of California, Irvine and the University of California, San Diego
Mary Agnes Chase Honorary, 1963 Botanist with the United States Department of Agriculture
Martha E. Church Geographer and the first female president of Hood College
Cornelia Clapp Honorary, 1931 Zoologist, specializing in marine biology. at the Marine Biological Laboratory
Jewel Plummer Cobb Honorary, 1988 Biologist and president of California State University, Fullerton
Teresa Cohen Mathematician and professor at Pennsylvania State University
Nancy Cole Mathematician who contributed to Morse theory
Rita R. Colwell Honorary, 1987 Environmental microbiologist
Zada Mary Cooper Honorary, 1963 Pharmacist and a professor of pharmacy at the University of Iowa
Kizzmekia Corbett Honorary, 2023 Assistant professor of immunology and infectious diseases

at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Ethaline Hartge Cortelyou Alpha Chemist and scientific technical writer who worked on the Manhattan Project
Martha Doan Honorary, 1951 Chemist and dean of women at Earlham College and Iowa Wesleyan College
Mildred Dresselhaus Honorary, 2016 Physicist, materials scientist, nanotechnologist, and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bernice Durand Physicist, professor, and vice provost at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
Helen Dyer Honorary, 1965 Biochemist and cancer researcher
Sylvia Earle Honorary, 2008 Marine biologist and oceanographer with the National Geographic and U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Sophia Eckerson Honorary, 1941 Botanist, microchemist, and department chair at the

Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research

Bernice Eddy Honorary, 1967 Virologist and epidemiologist at Northwestern University and Field Museum of Natural History
Alice Catherine Evans Honorary, 1931 Senior bacteriologist at the National Institutes of Health
Ruth Faden Honorary, 2003 Founder of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics
Margaret Clay Ferguson Honorary, 1931 Professor of botany and head of the department at Wellesley College
Edith M. Flanigen Honorary, 1994 Chemist known for her work at Union Carbide
Helen Murray Free Honorary, 1994 Chemist
Aline Huke Frink Nu, 1936 Mathematician and professor at Pennsylvania State University
Eloise Gerry Honorary, 1956 Research scientist with the U.S. Forest Service at the Forest Products Laboratory
Lillian Moller Gilbreth Honorary, 1949 Psychologist, industrial engineer, and pioneer in applying psychology to time-and-motion studies
Winifred Goldring Honorary, 1966 Paleontologist with the New York State Museum
Mary L. Good Honorary, 1988 Inorganic chemist and Under Secretary for Technology in the US Department of Commerce
Adele L. Grant Alpha, 1921 Botanist who taught at the Missouri Botanical Garden, Cornell University, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Huguenot Faculty in Wellington, South Africa
Esther Greisheimer Honorary, 1973 Academic and medical researcher
Lois Wilfred Griffiths Mathematician and professor at Northwestern University
Beatrice Hagen Mathematician and professor at Pennsylvania State University
Alice Hamilton Honorary, 1931 Physician and toxicologist
Laura Hare Medical doctor, naturalist, and conservationist
Anna J. Harrison Honorary, 1985 Organic chemist and professor at Mount Holyoke College
Helen Hart Honorary, 1967 Plant pathologist and professor at the University of Minnesota
Janet W. Hartley Honorary, 1980 Virologist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Mary Gertrude Haseman Mathematician known for her work in knot theory
Edith Haynes Professor of microbiology at the Indiana University School of Medicine
Nola Anderson Haynes Mathematician and professor at the University of Missouri
Olive Hazlett Mathematician and researcher at the University of Illinois
Marie Agnes Hinrichs Physiologist, zoologist, and professor at the University of Chicago, Southern Illinois University, and the University of Illinois
Ariel Hollinshead Honorary, 1977 Cancer researcher and professor at George Washington University
Elizabeth E. Hood Honorary, 2019 Plant geneticist and professor of agriculture at Arkansas State University
Grace Hopper Honorary, 1989 Computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral
Nancy Hopkins Honorary, 2006 Molecular biologist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Hope E. Hopps Microbiologist and immunologist with the Food and Drug Administration
Dorothy M. Horstmann Honorary, 1973 Epidemiologist, virologist, pediatrician, and professor at the Yale School of Medicine and the Yale School of Public Health
Susan B. Horwitz Honorary, 1995 Computer scientist and academic
Alice S. Huang Honorary, 1989 Biologist who specializes in microbiology and virology
Barbara Iglewski Honorary, 1988 Professor of microbiology and immunology and director of international programs at the University of Rochester Medical Center
Jedidah Isler Honorary, 2018 Professor of astrophysics at Dartmouth College
Janina Jeff Geneticist and a senior scientist at Illumina
Roberta Frances Johnson Mathematician and professor at Wilson College, Colorado State University, and the University of Colorado
Vivian Annabelle Johnson Physicist and professor at Purdue University
Madeleine M. Joullié Honorary, 2011 Organic chemist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania
Frances Oldham Kelsey Honorary, 1988 Pharmacologist and physician with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Mahin Khatami Omicron Program director and health scientist administrator at the

National Cancer Institute, the National Institutes of Health (NIH),

Ruth L. Kirschstein Honorary, 2001 Pathologist and director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Flemmie Pansy Kittrell Honorary, 1976 Nutritionist who was instrumental in creating the Head Start
Mary Jeanne Kreek Honorary, 1992 Neurobiologist
Lois Lampe Botanist and assistant professor at Ohio State University
Rebecca Lancefield Honorary, 1971 Microbiologist with the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research
Mary Landers Mathematician who taught at Hunter College
Jean Langenheim Honorary, 2011 Plant ecologist and ethnobotanist
Hellen Linkswiler Honorary, 1982 Dietitian, nutrition scientist, and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
Marigold Linton Honorary, 2018 first Native American to earn a doctorate in psychology
Mayme Logsdon Mathematician and professor at the University of Chicago
Kathleen Lonsdale Honorary, 1967 Crystallographer
Madge Macklin Honorary, 1949 Physician is known for her work in the field of medical genetics
Lynne E. Maquat Professor of biochemistry, biophysics, pediatrics, and oncology at the University of Rochester Medical Center
Barbara McClintock Honorary, 1987 Cytogeneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Elizabeth McCoy Honorary, 1973 Microbiologist and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
Eula Davis McEwan Geologist and paleontologist who taught at the University of Nebraska
Mary Alice McWhinnie Honorary, 1974 Biologist and professor at DePaul University
Margaret Mead Honorary, 1963 Cultural anthropologist, author, and speaker
Elizabeth C. Miller Honorary, 1980 Biochemist
Nell I. Mondy Honorary, 1986 Biochemist and faculty of Cornell University
Ethel Isabel Moody Honorary, 1986 Mathematician and professor at Pennsylvania State University
Rosalind Morris Honorary, 2011 Professor of plant cytogenetics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Shruti Naik Honorary, 2019 Associate professor of pathology, dermatology, and medicine and associate director for the Colton Center for Autoimmunity at NYU Langone Health.
Donna Nelson Honorary, 2018 Professor of chemistry at the University of Oklahoma
Dorothy Virginia Nightingale Organic chemist and professor at the University of Missouri
Yan Ning Honorary, 2020 Structural biologist and professor at Tsinghua University and Princeton University
Ruth Sonntag Nussenzweig Honorary, 1995 Immunologist specializing in the development of malaria vaccines
Ellen Ochoa Honorary 2019 NASA astronaut and former director of the Johnson Space Center.
Helen Brewster Owens Mathematician, assistant professor at Penn State University, and suffragist
Katherine Van Winkle Palmer Alpha, 1921; Honorary, 1971 Tertiary paleontologist and director of the Paleontological Research Institution
Sophy Parfin Entomologist with the National Museum of Natural History
Helen Parsons Honorary, 1966 Biochemist and nutritionist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Edith Marion Patch Honorary, 1941 Entomologist and head of the entomology department at the University of Maine
Eva J. Pell Honorary, 2001 Biologist, plant pathologist, and science administrator at Pennsylvania State University and the Smithsonian Institution
Jeannette Piccard Honorary, 1971 High-altitude balloonist
Margaret Pittman Honorary, 1974 Bacteriologist at the National Institutes of Health
Dorothy Powelson Microbiologist and associate professor at Purdue University
Jessie Isabelle Price Veterinary microbiologist at the National Wildlife Health Center
Johnnie Hines Watts Prothro Nutritionist and chair of the Department of Home Economics and Food Administration at Tuskegee University
Edith Quimby Honorary, 1951 Medical researcher, physicist, and one of the founders of nuclear medicine
Adrienne Sophie Rayl Mathematician and University of Alabama Extension Center (now the University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Elizabeth Wagner Reed Geneticist and one of the first scientists to work on Drosophila speciation
Mina Rees Honorary, 1971 Head of the mathematics department of the Office of Naval Research
Sally Ride Honorary, 1989 NASA astronaut and physicist
Jane Sands Robb Honorary, 1939 Professor of pharmacology at State University of New York Upstate Medical University
Mary Dora Rogick Honorary, 1965 Zoologist, professor and researcher at the College of New Rochelle
Nina Roscher Honorary, 1982 Professor and chair of the chemistry department at American University
Florence R. Sabin Honorary, 1926 First woman to hold a full professorship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Rosemary S. J. Schraer Honorary, 1990 Chancellor of the University of California, Riverside
Florence B. Seibert Honorary, 1943 Biochemist who identified the active agent in the antigen tuberculin
Mary Lura Sherrill Honorary, 1950 Chemical researcher and professor at Mount Holyoke College
Patricia Silveyra Professor and chair of Environmental and Occupational Health at Indiana University School of Public Health
Maxine Singer Honorary, 1988 Molecular biologist and administrator.of Carnegie Institution of Washington
Maud Slye Honorary 1931 Pathologist at the University of Chicago
Thressa Stadtman Honorary, 1987 Biochemist who discovered selenocysteine
Anna Stafford Mathematician with the Institute for Advanced Study
Ruth Stokes Mathematician, cryptologist, and astronomer
Evelyn Butler Tilden Microbiologist at the National Institutes of Health and Northwestern University Dental School
Marjorie Townsend Honorary, 1995 Electrical engineer and the first woman to manage a spacecraft launch for NASA
Bertha Van Hoosen Honorary, 1931 Surgeon and founding president of the American Medical Women's Association
Ellen Vitetta Honorary, 1995 Director of the Cancer Immunobiology Center at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Lydia Villa-Komaroff Honorary, 2001 Molecular and cellular biologist
Roxana Vivian Mathematics professor
Joni Wallis Honorary, 2023 Neurophysiologist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley
Evelyn J. Weber Biochemist, agronomist, and faculty of the Agronomy Department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Marion Webster Honorary, 1970 Biochemist who was the first to isolate the Vi antigen of typhoid
Elizabeth Weisburger Honoray, 1977 Chemist with the National Cancer Institute
Marie Johanna Weiss Mathematician, university professor, and textbook author
Cynthia Westcott Alpha Plant pathologist, author, and contributor to The New York Times, House and Garden, and The American Home
Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler Honorary, 1931 Mathematician and professor at Bryn Mawr College
Anna Rachel Whiting Honorary, 1965 Geneticist
Frances Wick Honorary, 1934 Physicist known for her studies on luminescence
Evelyn Prescott Wiggin Mathematician and professor at Randolph-Macon Woman's College
Mary Louisa Willard Honorary, 1957 Forensic scientist and professor at Pennsylvania State University
Chien-Shiung Wu Honorary, 1973 Experimental physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project
Emily Kathryn Wyant Delta Mathematician and founder of Kappa Mu Epsilon
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Honorary, 1978 Co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

See also

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