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1973

20/32

First Black Woman to Receive a Doctorate From MIT​

Boston, Massachusetts

​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.

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