Shirley Ann Jackson
Shirley Ann Jackson, 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. She is also the second African American woman in the United States to earn a doctorate in physics.
Background
- Born in
- Washington, D.C.
- Educated at
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyTheodore Roosevelt High SchoolPark View School
- Awards
- 🏆 National Medal of Science🏆 Oersted Medal🏆 National Women's Hall of Fame🏆 Vannevar Bush Award🏆 Clark Kerr Medal
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 James Edward Young
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1946
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