Shirley Ann Jackson

Birth : 1946-08-05, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

History

Shirley Ann Jackson, FREng 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.

Movies

MIT: Regressions
MIT: Regressions
Self
A documentary on the history of the Institute and America, spanning from World War 2 to COVID-19. Features AI-enhanced archival footage of MIT from throughout the past century. View now at https://regressions.net.