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Jackson was born in Birmingham, Alabama to William Morgan and Claudia H. Jackson on September 24, 1936. [4] [5] He grew up in a segregated society and spent part of his childhood in Dynamite Hill, an area in Birmingham that the Ku Klux Klan frequently bombed during the Civil rights movement.
Barbara Ann Williams is an American radio astronomer who was the first African-American woman to earn a PhD in astronomy (University of Maryland, College Park, 1981).Her research largely focused on compact galaxy groups, in particular observations of their emissions in the H I region in order to build up a larger scale picture of the structure and evolution of galaxies.
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (born Cecilia Helena Payne; () May 10, 1900 – () December 7, 1979) was a British-American astronomer and astrophysicist.In her 1925 doctoral thesis she proposed that stars were composed primarily of hydrogen and helium.
Takeshi Oka (岡 武史, Oka Takeshi, born 1932), FRS FRSC, is a Japanese-American spectroscopist and astronomer specializing in the field of galactic astronomy, known as a pioneer of astrochemistry and the co-discoverer of interstellar trihydrogen cation (H +
Sally M. Promey (born February 22, 1953) is an American art historian. She worked in the faculty of Northwestern University and University of Maryland, College Park, where she was chair of the Department of Art History and Archaeology, before becoming Caroline Washburn Professor of Religion and Visual Culture at Yale Divinity School. [1]
Ewine Fleur van Dishoeck (born 13 June 1955, in Leiden) is a Dutch astronomer and chemist. [1] She is Professor of Molecular Astrophysics at Leiden Observatory, [1] [2] and served as the President of the International Astronomical Union (2018–2021) and a co-editor of the Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics (2012–present). [3]
Jack Philip Greene (born August 12, 1931) is an American historian, specializing in Colonial American history and Atlantic history.. Greene was born in Lafayette, Indiana and received his PhD from Duke University in 1956.
Jedidah C. Isler is an American astrophysicist, educator, and an active advocate for diversity in STEM. She became the first African-American woman to complete her PhD in astrophysics at Yale in 2014. [1] She is currently an assistant professor of astrophysics at Dartmouth College. [2]