Shirley Ann Jackson,
(born August 5, 1946)
Shirley is an American physicist, and the eighteenth president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Shirley Ann Jackson
(born August 5, 1946)
She is the first African-American woman to have earned a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).[1]
She is also the second African-American woman in the United States to earn a doctorate in physics.[2]
Jackson was born in Washington, DC. Her parents, Beatrice and George Jackson, strongly valued education and encouraged her in school.
Her father helped her on her interest in science by helping her with projects for her science classes.
At Roosevelt Senior High School, Jackson attended accelerated programs in both math and science, and graduated in 1964 as valedictorian.[3]
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