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Shirley Ann Jackson

77 years old Physicist born on

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Profession
Physicist
Age
77 years old
Zodiac
Leo
Born in
Washington, DC
About
Famous as the first female and African American Chair of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, this prominent physicist also served as President of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Over the course of her distinguished career, she worked for AT&T Bell Laboratories and taught at Rutgers University.
Family
The daughter of George and Beatrice Jackson, she spent her youth in Washington, D.C. Her marriage to university physics teacher Morris A. Washington produced a son named Alan.

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