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Shirley Ann Jackson | |
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| Chair of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board | |
| In office August 29, 2014 – January 20, 2017 Serving with Jami Miscik | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | David Boren Chuck Hagel |
| Succeeded by | Steve Feinberg |
| President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | |
| In office July 1, 1999 – July 1, 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Cornelius Barton |
| Succeeded by | Martin A. Schmidt |
| Personal details | |
| Born | August 5, 1946 Washington, D.C. |
| Spouse | Morris Washington |
| Education | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, MS, PhD) |
| Website | Official website |
Shirley Ann Jackson, FREng (born August 5, 1946) is an American physicist, and was the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She was the subject of false claims (made by others, not by Jackson herself) that she invented caller ID and call waiting.
She is the first African American woman to have earned a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics.[1][2] She is also the second African American woman in the United States to earn a doctorate in physics.[3]
She conducted breakthrough basic scientific research that enabled others to invent the portable fax, touch tone telephone, solar cells, fiber optic cables, and the technology behind caller ID and call waiting.[4]
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