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The William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement is an award given by Sigma Xi, a scientific-research honor society.The Procter Prize is presented annually to a scientist who has made an outstanding contribution to scientific research and has demonstrated an ability to communicate the significance of this research to scientists in other disciplines.
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society (ΣΞ) is a non-profit honor society for scientists and engineers. Sigma Xi was founded at Cornell University by a junior faculty member and a small group of graduate students in 1886 and is one of the oldest honor societies.
Following is a list of Sigma Xi chapters. [1] [2] [3] Sigma Xi is an international scientific research honor society. [1] In addition to collegiate chapters, the society maintains area and company-based chapters. Active chapters are indicated in bold. Inactive chapters or institutions are in italics.
Irving Langmuir – research helped develop the incandescent light bulb, Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner [25] [26] Tobin J. Marks – National Medal of Science laureate [24] Donna Nelson – President of Oklahoma Sigma Xi Chapter, American Chemical Society (ACS) President (2016), Breaking Bad science advisor (2008-2013).
Her doctoral advisor was Joseph Ramus. Marcus received funding support through grants-in-aid from Sigma Xi, NSF grant, NICHD Training Grant, NSF Traineeship, and Yale University Fellowships. [8] She became known as an accomplished oceanographer and an expert on the study of copepods through her graduate research and studies. [4]
Other key awards include the Outstanding New Researcher Award, Thailand Research Fund (2007), Translation Grant, American Council of Learned Societies, USA (2006), Sigma-Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research, The Scientific Research Society, USA (2000), Phyllis and Richard Daugherty Scholarship for Graduate Student Excellence, Department of Anthropology ...
Member Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, The American Association of University Professors, The American Society of Engineering Education. 1952 awarded a $12,600 research grant by the National Science Foundation to support research in the field of Phenomena Accompanying Transient Low Voltage Sparkover in Liquid Dielectrics. Pittsburgh Man of the Year in 1959.
In 1929, some Georgia Tech faculty members belonging to Sigma Xi started a Research Club at Tech that met once a month. [10] One of the monthly subjects, proposed by W. Harry Vaughan, was a collection of issues related to Georgia Tech, such as library development, and the development of a state engineering station.