Shirley Ann Jackson
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Shirley Ann Jackson is an African American physicist and the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is the first African American woman to earn a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics.
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We need to go back to the discovery, to posing a question, to having a hypothesis and having kids know that they can discover the answers and can peel away a layer.
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I am interested in the electronic, optical, magnetic, and transport properties of novel semiconductor systems.
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Never let academics falter; you have to be successful to have authority to champion change
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Yuan T. LeeAlso won Clark Kerr Medal
Victor WeisskopfAlso won Joseph A. Burton Forum Award
James A. Van AllenAlso won Philip Hauge Abelson Prize
Richard SmalleyAlso won Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award
Mildred DresselhausAlso won Oersted Medal
Anna Deavere SmithAlso won honorary degree from Spelman CollegeAbout this person
Shirley Ann Jackson is an African American physicist and the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is the first African American woman to earn 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.
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