Shirley Ann Jackson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Shirley Ann Jackson

American physicist, The 18th president of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Date of Birth: 05-Aug-1946

Place of Birth: Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, United States

Profession: physicist, university teacher

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Shirley Ann Jackson, (born August 5, 1946) is an American physicist, and the eighteenth president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
She is the first African-American woman to have earned a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
She is also the second African-American woman in the United States to earn a doctorate in physics, and awarded the National Medal of Science.