Shirley Ann Jackson was born August 5, 1946 in Washington, D.C. She received her B.S. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her Ph.D. (Physics). She was the first African American female to receive a doctorate in Theoretical Solid State physics from MIT.
Jackson became a Research Associate in Theoretical Physics at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and served as a Visiting Science Associate at the European Organization for Nuclear Research. She served at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and Aspen Center for Physics, served on the Technical Staff of Bell Telephone Laboratories in theoretical physics and worked with the Technical Staff of the Scattering and Low Energy Physics Research Laboratory of Bell Telephone Laboratories, appointed as Professor of Physics at Rutgers University in Piscataway, N.J. and serving concurrently with her professorship at Rutgers as a consultant in semiconductor theory to AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J. and was appointed as Commissioner of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and assumed the Chairmanship.
Her research focused on Landau theories of charge density waves in one- and two-dimensions and also touched on two-dimensional Yang-Mills gauge theories and neutrino reactions.
Dr. Shirley Jackson, chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, was |
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