Shirley Ann Jackson

About Shirley Ann Jackson

This eminent physicist was also President of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and was the first female and African American Chair of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission. She worked with AT&T Bell Laboratories and lectured at Rutgers University during her illustrious career.

Shirley Ann Jackson, is an American physicist, and the eighteenth president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is the first African-American woman to have earned a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is also the second African-American woman in the United States to earn a doctorate in physics.

Preceded by	David Boren, Chuck Hagel
President	Barack Obama
Born	August 5, 1946, Washington, D.C.
Spouse(s)	Morris Washington
Succeeded by	Steve Feinberg
Education	Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Trivia

She sat on the Board of Directors of the Smithsonian Institution, the New York Stock Exchange, the Brookings Institution, and numerous other high-profile organizations.

Shirley Ann Jackson before fame

She became the first African American female doctoral graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after receiving her bachelor's degree in theoretical physics. She worked as a researcher at Illinois' Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory early in her career.

Achievement of Shirley Ann Jackson

She was a member of the Smithsonian Institution, the New York Stock Exchange, the Brookings Institution, and a number of other high-profile organizations' boards of directors.

Salary 2020

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Net Worth 2020

Undisclosed

Shirley Ann Jackson family life

She grew up in Washington, D.C., as the daughter of George and Beatrice Jackson. Her marriage to Morris A. Washington, a university physics professor, resulted in a son named Alan.

Associations of Shirley Ann Jackson

She is a contemporary of Jim Gates, a well-known African American physicist.

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