
Date: 1973
Who: Shirley Ann Jackson
Where: Boston, Massachusetts
What: Shirley Ann Jackson is an American scientist and theoretical physicist who became the first black women to receive a doctorate from the Massachusetts institute of technology. She went on to become the first woman and first African American to chair the U.S Nuclear regulatory commission.
Learn more: Shirley Ann Jackson's Biography (thehistorymakers.org)
Zierler, D. (2021). Q&A: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute president Shirley Ann Jackson on navigating the ivory tower as a Black woman.
Jackson, S. A. (1968). Tunneling density of states behavior in superconducting niobium-titanium (Doctoral dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
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