Feb 19, 2021
Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson Earns Prestigious Oersted Medal from American Association of Physics Teachers
Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson Earns Prestigious Oersted Medal from American Association of Physics Teachers
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) Next time you glance at your phone, see an unwelcome name, and send that unwanted call to voicemail, know physicist Shirley Ann Jackson is the one who had your back. The first African American woman to earn a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. Jackson is responsible for major advances in telecommunications research that led to…
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