Person
Shirley Ann Jackson
- Specialty
- Acting
- Birth
- August 5, 1946 · 80 years
- Origin
- Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Professional Trajectory
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.
