Tau Beta Pi members include such notable achievers as Time magazine's man of the year Andy Grove, Jeff Bezos, Charles Draper, and James Van Allen; Draper prize winners Robert Kahn, Leonard Kleinrock, Robert Langer, Jack Kilby, Hans von Ohain, John Pierce, Vladimir Haensel, and Harold Rosen; 19 Nobel laureates, including Jack Kilby, Paul Lauterbur, and Rosalyn Yalow; Presidential medal of freedom awardees Buzz Aldrin, John Bardeen, Fred Haise, C.L. Kelley Johnson, David Packard, Simon Ramo, and others; inventors Albert Babb (portable dialysis machine), Mark Dean (personal computer architecture), Wilson Greatbatch (implantable cardiac pacemaker), and Peter Schultz (optical fiber); Ecuador's former President Leon Cordero; more than 60 astronauts who have flown in space; and the late: Seymour Cray, Marvin Camras, Chester Carlson, Harold Edgerton, Robert Goizueta, Charles Kettering, Robert Moog, Linus Pauling, Charles Steinmetz, rocket engineer Wernher von Braun, movie director Frank Capra, media measurer Arthur C. Nielsen, Columbia astronaut Rick Husband, and Challenger astronauts Ellison Onizuka, Judy Resnik, and Dick Scobee.
See below for links to comprehensive listings of our distinguished members.