Shirley Ann Jackson

Shirley Ann Jackson

American physicist (born 1946)

Shirley Ann Jackson (born August 5, 1946) is an African American physicist and the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is the first African American woman to earn a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics.2

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Born Aug 5, 1946.1

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She is also the second African American woman in the United States to earn a doctorate in physics.

From Wikipedia’s article on Shirley Ann Jackson, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2

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