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Shirley Ann Jackson

1946 - Today

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Shirley Ann Jackson, (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. She is also the second African American woman in the United States to earn a doctorate in physics. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Shirley Ann Jackson is the 741st most popular physicist (up from 768th in 2019), the 9,401st most popular biography from United States (up from 10,111th in 2019) and the 166th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Shirley Ann Jackson ranks 741 out of 851. Before her are Mordehai Milgrom, Valentine Telegdi, Vilho Väisälä, Seymour Benzer, Peter Mark Roget, and Ted Fujita. After her are Rolf-Dieter Heuer, Robert Bacher, Hans Reissner, Hubert Curien, Adriaan Fokker, and Humberto Fernández-Morán.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Shirley Ann Jackson ranks 643. Before her are Terry Kath, Richard Blumenthal, Dean Cundey, Michel Chossudovsky, Marcial Pina, and Wiesław Rudkowski. After her are Irene Fernandez, Vladimir Belousov, Humphrey Carpenter, Ricky Jay, Reinhard Lauck, and Tom Harrell.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Shirley Ann Jackson ranks 9,403 out of 20,380. Before her are Pua Kealoha (1902), Dustin Moskovitz (1984), Marguerite Clark (1883), Bill O'Reilly (1949), Mike Mills (1958), and Gordon B. Hinckley (1910). After her are Angus King (1944), George Thorogood (1950), Daniel Henney (1979), Jane Irwin Harrison (1804), John L. Phillips (1951), and Bill Robinson (1877).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Shirley Ann Jackson ranks 166. Before her are Charles Stark Draper (1901), Nicholas Metropolis (1915), Gerald Guralnik (1936), Karl Taylor Compton (1887), James Hartle (1939), and Seymour Benzer (1921). After her are Robert Bacher (1905), Stanton T. Friedman (1934), Elda Emma Anderson (1899), Mary K. Gaillard (1939), Frank Benford (1883), and Paul Steinhardt (1952).

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