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Shirley Ann Jackson

Physicist and university president Shirley Ann Jackson (1946 – ) served as professor of physics at Rutger University before being named the eighteenth President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Jackson was the first African American woman to receive her doctorate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and is the former Chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, an appointment by President Clinton. Link: http://www.idvl.org/sciencemakers/Bio10.html

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