STEM Hall of Fame

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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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

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.

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.

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).

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.

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9 John R. Dunning, Ph.D., Nebraska Wesleyan ’26, was a physicist who played a key role in the Manhattan Project that developed the first atomic bombs. He specialized in neutron physics and did pioneering work in gaseous diffusion for isotope separation. He was Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University from 1950 to 1969.

resonance imaging (MRI) possible. Lauterbur was a professor at Stony Brook University from 1963 until 1985, where he conducted his research for the development of the MRI. In 1985, he became a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for 22 years, serving as a professor of chemistry, with appointments in bioengineering, biophysics, the College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign and computational biology at the Center for Advanced Study.

13 Roger Morse, Ph.D., Cornell ’48, was a bee biologist who taught many beekeepers through his research and publications. He was chairman of the entomology department at Cornell University and was made a fellow of the Entomological Society of America.

Science. As a teacher, he was mentor to dozens of noted academics, including Paul Dunn, Ph.D., Mississippi State ’38. Miami University’s Earth Science building was named for Shideler in 1967.

16 M. Frank Rudy, Case Western ’48, was an aerospace engineer who left the industry in 1969 to pursue a career as an independent inventor who ended up with more than 250 patents. He is best known as the inventor of the Nike “Air” sole.

17 William T. Schwendler, New York ’32, was an aeronautical engineer and one of the founders of Grumman Aircraft. At Grumman, he was chief of engineering who was in charge of the engineering staff that designed World War II combat

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10 Paul H. Emmett, Ph.D., Oregon State ’25, was a chemist best known for his pioneering work in the field of catalysis and for his work on the Manhattan Project during World War II. He spearheaded the research to separate isotopes of uranium and to develop a corrosive uranium gas. Emmett also made significant contributions to BET Theory which explains the relationship between

surface area and gas adsorption. He served on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University for 23 years throughout his scientific career.

11 John E. Fryer, M.D., Transylvania ’54, was a psychiatrist best known for his anonymous speech at the 1972 American Psychiatric Association (APA) annual conference where he appeared in disguise and under the name Dr. Henry Anonymous. This event has been cited as a key factor in the decision to de-list homosexuality as a mental illness from the APA's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The APA's "John E. Fryer, M.D., Award" is named in his honor.

12 Paul C. Lauterbur, Ph.D., Case Western ’51, was a chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 with Peter Mansfield for his work which made the development of magnetic

14 Clyde Roper, Ph.D., Transylvania ’56, is a research zoologist emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. He joined the Smithsonian in 1966 and is a world-renowned expert on cephalopods, including the giant squid, a specimen of which is displayed in an exhibit at the Natural Museum of Natural History, "In Search of the Giant Squid". He has discovered and described new species, a number of new genera, and one new family of cephalopods.

15 William H. Shideler, PhD, Miami 1906, was a professor and founder of the Department of Geology at Miami University where he taught for 47 years. As a paleontologist, he became an expert on the Upper Ordovician fossils and stratigraphy. He was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Ohio Academy of

aircraft the Wildcat, the Hellcat and the Avenger that were responsible for more than two-thirds of enemy planes shot down by the U.S. Navy in the Pacific theater.

18 Ernest H. Volwiler, PhD, Miami 1912, was a chemist and co-inventor of the “truth serum” Pentothal. He spent his entire career at the drugmaker Abbott Laboratories, retiring as chairman of the board in 1961. He was appointed to the governing board of the National Science Foundation by President Eisenhower and received the American Chemical Society's Priestley Medal in 1958 and the American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal in 1960. He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1986 for his work with Pentothal.

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