Shirley Ann Jackson is one of the most popular and richest Physicist who was born on August 5, 1946 in Washington, D.C., United States. The first female and the first African American Chair of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, this well-known physicist was president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Through her remarkable career, she was employed by AT&T Bell Laboratories and taught at Rutgers University.
She is a friend of fellow famous African American physicist She is a contemporary of fellow renowned African American physicist Jim Gates..
A child of George and Beatrice Jackson, she spent her childhood living in Washington, D.C. Her union with university Physics professor Morris A. Washington produced an infant son who was named Alan.
