STEM HALL OF FAME
PHI KAPPA TAU
STEM HALL of FAME
was placed on the Moon during the Apollo 15 mission. Bassett transferred from Ohio State after two years to Texas Tech and an Electrical Engineering Research Laboratory building is named for him there. 3 Col. Kenneth N. Beers, M.D., Muhlenberg ’49, was a NASA flight surgeon and professor emeritus at Wright State University Medical School. For his work with NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Center, Beers was awarded the Legion of Merit. He served as a flight surgeon to the Gemini/Titan Program while at NASA, as well as team leader of the Gemini Recovery Medical Team, a surgeon for the Apollo Mission, and in Mission Control for Apollo Missions 8, 9, 10, and 11.
6 Leroy Chiao, PhD, UC Berkeley ’79, is a chemical engineer and retired NASA astronaut. He spent more than 229 days in space and participated in four space flights including the Columbia, Endeavour and Discovery missions. He was commander of the International Space Station’s Expedition 10 in 2004-2005. Since his retirement from NASA, Chiao has been a professor, consultant, entrepreneur and commentator and has received numerous awards. 7 Vincent T. DeVita Jr., MD, William & Mary ’55, is an internationally recognized pioneer in the field of oncology for his work on combination-chemotherapy
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fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics is not exhaustive. We welcome recommendations for others who should be included among distinguished Phi Taus in STEM fields.
1 William F. Ballhaus Jr., UC Berkeley ’64, is the former president and CEO of The Aerospace Corporation He previously worked for Lockheed Martin Corporation, Martin Marietta Corporation and was director of NASA's Ames Research Center. He holds three engineering degrees from the University of California, Berkeley and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. 2 Maj. Charles A. Bassett II, Ohio State ’51, was an aeronautical engineer and Air Force test pilot who was selected as a NASA astronaut in 1963 and was assigned to Gemini 9. He died in an airplane crash during training for his first spaceflight. He is memorialized on the Space Mirror Memorial; The Astronaut Monument; and the Fallen Astronaut memorial plaque, which
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4 Everett Smith Beneke, PhD, Miami ’37, was professor for 39 years at Michigan State University. A noted mycologist, his research emphasis was on medical aspects of mycology, and he became a world expert on human mycoses, especially Candida and candidiasis.
treatments, is the Amy and Joseph Perella Professor of Medicine at Yale Cancer Center, and a Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health. He directed the Yale Cancer Center from 1993 to 2003. He was the president of the American Cancer Society (2012-2013).
5 Peter P. Bosomworth, MD, Kent State ’50, was an anesthesiologist who was professor of anesthesiology at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine and later chancellor of UK’s Chandler Medical Center. At his retirement in 1994, Dr. Bosomworth was recognized as having the longest tenure of any top medical center administrator at a single academic institution in the country.
8 Ward Darley Jr., MD, Colorado ’24, was a physician, vice president for health sciences, and for three years president of the University of Colorado. He was awarded honorary degrees from more than twelve universities. In 1964, he received the Association of American Medical Colleges' Abraham Flexner Award for Distinguished Service to Medical Education, its highest honor. In 1971, he became a Master of the American College of Physicians.
