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Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, FREng (born August 5, 1946) is an American physicist, and was the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 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] and the first African American woman ...
May 13, 2024 · Shirley Ann Jackson (born August 5, 1946, Washington, D.C., U.S.) is an American scientist and educator and the first Black woman to receive a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Sep 22, 2006 · Shirley Ann Jackson. Renowned physicist and university president Shirley Ann Jackson was born on August 5, 1946, in Washington, D.C., to George Hiter Jackson and Beatrice Cosby Jackson.
Dec 19, 2017 · Shirley Ann Jackson ’68, PhD ’73, worked to help bring about more diversity at MIT, where she was the first African-American woman to earn a doctorate.
Shirley Ann Jackson, noted physicist and former head of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), was one of the first two Black American women to receive a doctorate in physics in the U.S. and the first to receive a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The Honorable Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D., was the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the oldest technological research university in the United States, where she led an extraordinary transformation since 1999.
May 18, 2018 · Shirley Ann Jackson is a theoretical physicist who has spent her career researching and teaching about particle physics —the branch of physics which uses theories and mathematics to predict the existence of subatomic particles and the forces that bind them together.
Mar 21, 2016 · In the 1990s, Jackson was the first woman and first African American to chair the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Today, she serves as president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, again as the first woman and the first African American to hold the position.
Shirley Ann Jackson was born in 1946 in Washington, DC. She attended Roosevelt High School, and graduated as a valedictorian. At MIT, she founded the Black Student Union and advocated for the admission of more Black students by the institution.
Scientist, educator, and role model. Shirley Ann Jackson has definitely walked many different paths of science. After Shirley got her chance to learn more about science and to be surrounded by students with the same goal, she moved on to research and teaching.
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