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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 to have earned a doctorate at MIT in any field. [2]
“I am Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson!” she intoned after another student (a fifth grader!) made it clear she wanted to hear her story. Johnson went on.
2014: American theoretical physicist Shirley Anne Jackson was awarded the National Medal of Science. Jackson had been the first African-American woman to receive a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) during the early 1970s, and the first woman to chair the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. [155] [156]
Shirley Ann Jackson – United States (born 1946) Boris Jacobi – Germany, Russia (1801–1874) Gregory Jaczko – United States (born 1970) Chennupati Jagadish – India, Australia (born 1957) Jainendra Jain – India (born 1960) Ratko Janev – North Macedonia (1939–2019) Andreas Jaszlinszky – Hungary (1715–1783) Ali Javan – Iran ...
While the national unemployment rate remains at a steep 9.7%, the U.S. still has an alarming shortage of science and technology professionals, warns noted physicist and college president Shirley ...
The Shirley Ann Jackson Stock Index From January 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Shirley Ann Jackson joined the board, and sold them when she left, you would have a 43.2 percent return on your investment, compared to a -2.8 percent return from the S&P 500.
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Lesley Ann Warren Bill Clinton Peggy Lipton. August 1. Mike Emrick, American sportscaster; Sandi Griffiths, American singer; August 5. Ron Silliman, American poet; Loni Anderson, American actress (WKRP in Cincinnati) Shirley Ann Jackson, African American physicist and academic administrator [8] August 9 – Jim Kiick, American football player