SO’09: Sigma Xi Center’s Hall of Honor

ScienceOnline’09 was hosted at the Sigma Xi Center in the Triangle, which housed the Hall of Honor in one of its wings. The hall is comprised of three stacks of polish panels facing large windows, honoring Sigma Xi members who have won the Nobel Prize. Albert Einstein is on there, as well as Luis Alvarez, Barbara McClintock and Al Gore.

The shiny slabs are an irresistible piece of decor—people at the unconference kept staring at it, looking for familiar names, asking questions and taking photos it. It is rather intimating, too, not from standing below the giant slabs of impressive names, but I felt that I should have recognized more of the Nobel laureates. Regardless, it was a great historical segue at the unconference.