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Graduate Women in Science formerly known as Sigma Delta Epsilon, is an international organization for women in science.[1] It was established in 1921 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, United States as a women's fraternity.[1] Following are some of its notable members. Membership include graduate students in the sciences, alumnae, and honorary members.[2] The later are professional women who had achieved recognition in the science.[2]

Name Chapter and year Notability References
Isabella Abbott Honorary, 2001 Phycologist and ethnobotanist at Stanford University [3]
Ruth M. Addoms Botanist at Duke University [4]
Virginia Apgar Honorary, 1971 Physician, obstetrical anesthesiologist, medical researcher, and inventor of the Apgar score [5][3]
Beulah Armstrong Gamma, 1924 Mathematician and professor at the University of Illinois [6]
Carrie Adeline Barbour Iota, 1927 Assistant professor and assistant curator of paleontology

at the University of Nebraska State Museum

[7][8]
Lela Viola Barton Honorary, 1964 Botanist with the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research [5][3]
Raven Baxter Honorary, 2023 Science communicator and STEM educator [3]
May Berenbaum Honorary, 2017 Entomologist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign [3]
Lynne Billard Honorary, 1995 Statistician and professor at the University of Georgia [3]
Katharine Burr Blodgett Honorary, 1951 Physicist and chemist with General Electric [3][5]
Louise Arner Boyd Honorary, 1959 Explorer of Greenland and the Arctic [3][5]
Hazel Branch Alpha, 1921 Entomologist and head of the Department of Zoology

at Wichita State University

[2]
Jean Brenchley Honorary, 1986 Microbiologist and professor at the Pennsylvania State University and Purdue University [3]
Mary Bunting Honorary, 1963 Microbiologist, geneticist, and president of Radcliffe College [3][5]
Margaret Burbidge Honorary, 1985 Observational astronomer and astrophysicist [3]
Helen Calkins Mathematician and professor at the Pennsylvania College for Women [6]
Margery C. Carlson Honorary, 1978 Botanist and a professor at Northwestern University [5][3]
Annie Jump Cannon Honorary, 1931 Astronomer who co-created the Harvard Classification Scheme, [3][5]
Margery C. Carlson Honorary, 1978 Botanist and professor at Northwestern University [9][5][3]
Emma P. Carr Honorary, 1934 Spectroscopist and chair of the chemistry department at Mount Holyoke College [3][5]
Marjorie Caserio Honorary, 1980 Chemist and professor at the University of California, Irvine and the University of California, San Diego [3]
Mary Agnes Chase Honorary, 1963 Botanist with the United States Department of Agriculture [3]
Martha E. Church Geographer and the first female president of Hood College [10]
Cornelia Clapp Honorary, 1931 Zoologist, specializing in marine biology. at the Marine Biological Laboratory [3][5]
Jewel Plummer Cobb Honorary, 1988 Biologist and president of California State University, Fullerton [3]
Teresa Cohen Mathematician and professor at Pennsylvania State University [6]
Nancy Cole Mathematician who contributed to Morse theory [6]
Rita R. Colwell Honoary, 1987 Environmental microbiologist [3]
Zada Mary Cooper Honorary, 1963 Pharmacist and a professor of pharmacy at the University of Iowa [3][5]
Kizzmekia Corbett Honorary, 2023 Assistant professor of immunology and infectious diseases

at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

[3]
Ethaline Hartge Cortelyou Alpha Chemist and scientific technical writer who worked on the Manhattan Project [11][5]
Martha Doan Honorary, 1951 Chemist and dean of women at Earlham College and Iowa Wesleyan College [9][3]
Mildred Dresselhaus Honorary, 2016 Physicist, materials scientist, nanotechnologist, and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology [3]
Bernice Durand Physicist, professor, and vice provost at the University of Wisconsin–Madison [12]
Helen Dyer Honorary, 1965 Biochemist and cancer researcher [3][5]
Sylvia Earle Honorary, 2008 Marine biologist and oceanographer with the National Geographic and U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [3]
Sophia Eckerson Honorary, 1941 Botanist, microchemist, and department chair at the

Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research

[3][5]
Bernice Eddy Honorary, 1967 Virologist and epidemiologist at Northwestern University and Field Museum of Natural History [5][3]
Alice Catherine Evans Honorary, 1931 Senior bacteriologist at the National Institutes of Health [9][3][5]
Ruth Faden Honorary, 2003 Founder of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics [3]
Margaret Clay Ferguson Honorary, 1931 Professor of botany and head of the department at Wellesley College [3][5]
Edith M. Flanigen Honorary, 1994 Chemist known for her work at Union Carbide [3]
Helen Murray Free Honorary, 1994 Chemist [3]
Aline Huke Frink Nu, 1936 Mathematician and professor at Pennsylvania State University [13][6]
Eloise Gerry Honorary, 1956 Research scientist with the U.S. Forest Service at the Forest Products Laboratory [3][5]
Lillian Moller Gilbreth Honorary, 1949 Psychologist, industrial engineer, and pioneer in applying psychology to time-and-motion studies [3][5]
Winifred Goldring Honorary, 1966 Paleontologist with the New York State Museum [5][3]
Mary L. Good Honorary, 1988 Inorganic chemist and Under Secretary for Technology in the US Department of Commerce [3]
Adele Gerard Lewis 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 [14][2]
Esther Greisheimer Honorary, 1973 Academic and medical researcher [5][3]
Lois Wilfred Griffiths Mathematician and professor at Northwestern University [6]
Beatrice Hagen Mathematician and professor at Pennsylvania State University [6]
Alice Hamilton Honorary, 1931 Physician and toxicologist [3][5]
Laura Hare Medical doctor, naturalist, and conservationist [9][15][16][17][18][19]
Anna J. Harrison Honorary, 1985 Organic chemist and professor at Mount Holyoke College [3]
Helen Hart Honorary, 1967 Plant pathologist and professor at the University of Minnesota [5][3]
Janet W. Hartley Honorary, 1980 Virologist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [3]
Mary Gertrude Haseman Mathematician known for her work in knot theory [6]
Edith Haynes Professor of microbiology at the Indiana University School of Medicine [20][9]
Nola Anderson Haynes Mathematician and professor at the University of Missouri [6]
Olive Hazlett Mathematician and researcher at the University of Illinois [6]
Anna Henriques Mathematician with the Institute for Advanced Study [6]
Marie Agnes Hinrichs Physiologist, zoologist, and professor at the University of Chicago, Southern Illinois University, and the University of Illinois [21]
Ariel Hollinshead Honorary, 1977 Cancer researcher and professor at George Washington University [22][5][3]
Elizabeth E. Hood Honorary, 2019 Plant geneticist and professor of agriculture at Arkansas State University [3]
Grace Hopper Honorary, 1989 Computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral [3]
Nancy Hopkins Honorary, 2006 Molecular biologist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [3]
Hope E. Hopps Microbiologist and immunologist with the Food and Drug Administration [23]
Dorothy M. Horstmann Honorary, 1973 Epidemiologist, virologist, pediatrician, and professor at the Yale School of Medicine and the Yale School of Public Health [5][3]
Susan B. Horwitz Honorary, 1995 Computer scientist and academic [3]
Alice S. Huang Honorary, 1989 Biologist who specializes in microbiology and virology [3]
Barbara Iglewski Honorary, 1988 Professor of microbiology and immunology and director of international programs at the University of Rochester Medical Center [3]
Jedidah Isler Honorary, 2018 Professor of astrophysics at Dartmouth College [3]
Roberta Frances Johnson Mathematician and professor at Wilson College, Colorado State University, and the University of Colorado [6]
Vivian Annabelle Johnson Physicist and professor at Purdue University [24]
Madeleine M. Joullié Honorary, 2011 Organic chemist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania [3]
Frances Oldham Kelsey Honorary, 1988 Pharmacologist and physician with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration [3]
Mahin Khatami Omicron Program director and health scientist administrator at the

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

[25][26]
Ruth L. Kirschstein Honorary, 2001 Pathologist and director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences [3]
Flemmie Pansy Kittrell Honorary, 1976 Nutritionist who was instrumental in creating the Head Start [3][5]
Mary Jeanne Kreek Honorary, 1992 Neurobiologist [3]
Lois Lampe Botanist and assistant professor at Ohio State University [27]
Rebecca Lancefield Honorary, 1971 Microbiologist with the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research [5][3]
Mary Landers Mathematician who taught at Hunter College [6]
Jean Langenheim Honorary, 2011 Plant ecologist and ethnobotanist [28][3]
Hellen Linkswiler Honorary, 1982 Dietitian, nutrition scientist, and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison [3]
Marigold Linton Honorary, 2018 first Native American to earn a doctorate in psychology [3]
Mayme Logsdon Mathematician and professor at the University of Chicago [6]
Kathleen Lonsdale Honorary, 1967 Crystallographer [5][3]
Madge Macklin Honorary, 1949 Physician is known for her work in the field of medical genetics [3][5]
Lynne E. Maquat Professor of biochemistry, biophysics, pediatrics, and oncology at the University of Rochester Medical Center [29]
Barbara McClintock Honorary, 1987 Cytogeneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine [3]
Elizabeth McCoy Honorary, 1973 Microbiologist and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison [5][3]
Eula Davis McEwan Geologist and paleontologist who taught at the University of Nebraska [7]
Mary Alice McWhinnie Honorary, 1974 Biologist and professor at DePaul University [3][5]
Margaret Mead Honorary, 1963 Cultural anthropologist, author, and speaker [3][5]
Elizabeth C. Miller Honorary, 1980 Biochemist [3]
Nell I. Mondy Honorary, 1986 Biochemist and faculty of Cornell University [3]
Ethel Isabel Moody Honorary, 1986 Mathematician and professor at Pennsylvania State University [6][3]
Rosalind Morris Honorary, 2011 Professor of plant cytogenetics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln [3]
Shruti Naik Honorary, 2019 Associate professor of pathology, dermatology, and medicine and associate director for the Colton Center for Autoimmunity at NYU Langone Health. [3]
Donna Nelson Honorary, 2018 Professor of chemistry at the University of Oklahoma [3]
Dorothy Virginia Nightingale Organic chemist and professor at the University of Missouri [30]
Yan Ning Honorary, 2020 Structural biologist and professor at Tsinghua University and Princeton University [3]
Ruth Sonntag Nussenzweig Honorary, 1995 Immunologist specializing in the development of malaria vaccines [3]
Ellen Ochoa Honorary 2019 NASA astronaut and former director of the Johnson Space Center. [3]
Helen Brewster Owens Mathematician, assistant professor at Penn State University, and suffragist [6]
Katherine Van Winkle Palmer Alpha, 1921; Honorary, 1971 Tertiary paleontologist and director of the Paleontological Research Institution [9][2][5][3]
Sophy Parfin Entomologist with the National Museum of Natural History [31]
Helen Parsons Honorary, 1966 Biochemist and nutritionist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison [5][3]
Edith Marion Patch Honorary, 1941 Entomologist and head of the entomology department at the University of Maine [3][5]
Eva J. Pell Honorary, 2001 Biologist, plant pathologist, and science administrator at Pennsylvania State University and the Smithsonian Institution [3]
Jeannette Piccard Honorary, 1971 High-altitude balloonist [3][5]
Margaret Pittman Honorary, 1974 Bacteriologist at the National Institutes of Health [5][3]
Dorothy Powelson Microbiologist and associate professor at Purdue University [32]
Jessie Isabelle Price Veterinary microbiologist at the National Wildlife Health Center [33]
Johnnie Hines Watts Prothro Nutritionist and chair of the Department of Home Economics and Food Administration at Tuskegee University [34]
Edith Quimby Honorary, 1951 Medical researcher, physicist, and one of the founders of nuclear medicine [3][5]
Adrienne Sophie Rayl Mathematician and University of Alabama Extension Center (now the University of Alabama at Birmingham) [6]
Elizabeth Wagner Reed Geneticist and one of the first scientists to work on Drosophila speciation [35]
Mina Rees Honorary, 1971 Head of the mathematics department of the Office of Naval Research [5][3]
Sally Ride Honorary, 1989 NASA astronaut and physicist [3]
Jane Sands Robb Honorary, 1939 Professor of pharamacology at State University of New York Upstate Medical University [3][36][5]
Mary Dora Rogick Honorary, 1965 Zoologist, professor and researcher at the College of New Rochelle [3][5]
Nina Roscher Honorary, 1982 Professor and chair of the chemistry department at American University [3]
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 [3][5]
Rosemary S. J. Schraer Honorary, 1990 Chancellor of the University of California, Riverside [3]
Florence B. Seibert Honorary, 1943 Biochemist who identified the active agent in the antigen tuberculin [3][5]
Mary Lura Sherrill Honorary, 1950 Chemical researcher and professor at Mount Holyoke College [3][5]
Maxine Singer Honorary, 1988 Molecular biologist and administrator.of Carnegie Institution of Washington [3]
Maud Slye Honorary 1931 Pathologist at the University of Chicago [3][5]
Thressa Stadtman Honorary, 1987 Biochemist who discovered selenocysteine [3]
Ruth Stokes Mathematician, cryptologist, and astronomer [6]
Evelyn Butler Tilden Microbiologist at the National Institutes of Health and Northwestern University Dental School [37]
Marjorie Townsend Honorary, 1995 Electrical engineer and the first woman to manage a spacecraft launch for NASA [3]
Bertha Van Hoosen Honorary, 1931 Surgeon and founding president of the American Medical Women's Association [3][5]
Ellen Vitetta Honorary, 1995 Director of the Cancer Immunobiology Center at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center [3]
Lydia Villa-Komaroff Honorary, 2001 Molecular and cellular biologist [3]
Roxana Vivian Mathematics professor [6]
Joni Wallis Honorary, 2023 Neurophysiologist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley [3]
Evelyn J. Weber Biochemist, agronomist, and faculty of the Agronomy Department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign [38]
Marion Webster Honorary, 1970 Biochemist who was the first to isolate the Vi antigen of typhoid [39][5][3]
Elizabeth Weisburger Honoray, 1977 Chemist with the National Cancer Institute [3][40][5]
Marie Johanna Weiss Mathematician, university professor, and textbook author [6]
Cynthia Westcott Alpha Plant pathologist, author, and contributor to the The New York Times, House and Garden, and The American Home [41]
Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler Honorary, 1931 Mathematician and professor at Bryn Mawr College [3][5]
Anna Rachel Whiting Honorary, 1965 Geneticist [5][3][42]
Frances Wick Honorary, 1934 Physicist known for her studies on luminescence [5][3]
Evelyn Prescott Wiggin Mathematician and professor at Randolph-Macon Woman's College [6]
Mary Louisa Willard Honorary, 1957 Forensic scientist and professor at Pennsylvania State University [5][3]
Chien-Shiung Wu Honorary, 1973 Experimental physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project [5][3]
Emily Kathryn Wyant Delta Mathematician and founder of Kappa Mu Epsilon [6][43]
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Honorary, 1978 Co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine [3]

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