Dr shirley ann jackson biography
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Perot Museum of Nature and Science
August 5, – Present
Shirley Ann Jackson was born in in Washington, D.C. to Beatrice and George Jackson. She graduated as valedictorian of her class at Roosevelt Senior High School in Washington, D.C. Following high school, she started her studies in theoretical physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Dr. Jackson was one of the first Black students to attend MIT and encountered severe racism during her nine years of attendance. Although students told her to go away or avoided her during meals, Jackson soldiered on, receiving her B.S. in and her Ph.D. in particle physics in
Dr. Jackson was the first Black woman to receive a Ph.D. from MIT. During her tenure there, she helped form the Black Student Union and was partially responsible for the formation of the Task Force on Education Opportunities, on which she served as a member before graduating with her doctorate. Fifty seven new Black students were admitted to MIT following
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Biography of Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D.
he Honorable Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D. became the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on July 1, Dr. Jackson is a theoretical physicist. Since coming to Rensselaer, Dr. Jackson has led the development of the Rensselaer Plan (the Institute’s strategic blueprint), has begun implementation of much of the Plan, while restructuring processes and procedures; and secured a $ million unrestricted gift commitment to the university.
Dr. Jackson’s career prior to becoming Rensselaer’s president has encompassed senior positions in government, as Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission; in industry and research, as a theoretical physicist at the former AT&T Bell Laboratories; and in academe, as a professor of theoretical physics at Rutgers University.
Dr. Jackson holds a Ph.D. in theoretical elementary particle physics from M.I.T. () and a S.B. in physics from M.I.T. ().
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Shirley Ann Jackson
American physicist (born )
This article is about the forskare and university administrator. For the writer, see Shirley Jackson.
Shirley Ann Jackson, FREng (born August 5, ) is an American physicist, and was the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She was the subject of false claims (made bygd others, not by Jackson herself) that she invented caller ID and call waiting.
She is the first African American woman to have earned a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics.[1][2] She is also the second African American woman in the United States to earn a doctorate in physics.[3]
She conducted breakthrough basic scientific research that enabled others to invent the portable fax, touch tone telephone, solar cells, fiber optic cables, and the technology behind caller ID and call waiting.[4]
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[edit]Jackson was born in Washington, D.C