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          Shirley Ann Jackson

          American physicist (born )

          This article is about the scientist and university administrator. For the writer, see Shirley Jackson.

          Shirley Ann Jackson, FREng (born August 5, ) is an American physicist, and was the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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          5. She is the first African American woman to have earned a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics,[1] and the first African American woman to have earned a doctorate at MIT in any field.[2] She is also the second African American woman in the United States to earn a doctorate in physics.[3]

          Biography

          Jackson was born in Washington, D.C., and attended Roosevelt Senior High School.

          After graduation in , she enrolled at MIT to study theoretical physics, earning her B.S. degree in [4][5]

          Jackson elected to stay at MIT for her doctoral work, and received her Ph.D.

          degree in nuclear phy