Tuesday, June 2, 2020

Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson --- 2009 Appointed by President Barack Obama to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology

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Shirley Ann Jackson
(born August 5, 1946)


 Dr. Jackaon was appointed an International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 2012.[44]
  
 As a postdoctoral researcher of subatomic particles during the 1970s, Jackson studied and conducted research at a number of physics laboratories in both the United States and Europe.

 Her first position was as a research associate at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois (known as Fermilab) where she studied hadrons.

 In 1974 she became a visiting scientist at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland. 

There she explored theories of strongly interacting elementary particles. In 1976 and 1977, she both lectured in physics at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and became a visiting scientist at the Aspen Center for Physics.

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