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Shirley Ann Jackson was born in Washington,
D.C. in 1946. She received her B.S. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
in 1968 and her Ph.D. (Physics) in 1973. Shirley Jackson became the first
African American female to receive a doctorate in Theoretical Solid State
physics from MIT. |
Dr. Jackson became a Research Associate
in Theoretical Physics at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory from
1973-1974 and served as a Visiting Science Associate at the European Organization
for Nuclear Research (1974-1975). In 1975-76, Dr. Jackson returned to Fermi
National Accelerator Laboratory as a Research Associate in Theoretical
Physics. She spent 1976-77 at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and
Aspen Center for Physics. Dr. Jackson then served on the Technical Staff
of Bell Telephone Laboratories in theoretical physics from 1976 until 1978.
In 1978 Shirley Jackson began working with the Technical Staff of the Scattering
and Low Energy Physics Research Laboratory of Bell Telephone Laboratories.
From 1976 to 1991 Dr. Jackson was appointed as Professor of Physics at
Rutgers University in Piscataway, N.J. From 1991 to 1995, Dr. Jackson serving
concurrently with her professorship at Rutgers as a consultant in semiconductor
theory to AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J. Dr. Jackson was
appointed as Commissioner of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and assumed
the Chairmanship on May 2, 1995.
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