Shirley Ann Jackson

thumb|Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson (born 5 August 1946) is an American physicist, and the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She received her Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973, becoming the first African American woman to earn a doctorate from MIT. Quotes We need to go back to the discovery, to posing a question, to having a hypothesis and having kids know that they can discover the answers and can peel away a layer. Charlie Rose Science Series: The Imperative of Science I am interested in the electronic, optical, magnetic, and transport properties of novel semiconductor systems. Of special interest are the behavior of magnetic polarons in semimagnetic and dilute magnetic semiconductors, and the optical response properties of semiconductor quantum-wells and superlattices. My interests also include quantum dots, mesoscopic systems, and the role of antiferromagnetic fluctuations in correlated 2D electron systems. phycists of the african diapora Never let academics falter; you have to be successful to have authority to champion change External links Official Profile at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Shirley Ann Jackson at IWasWondering.com Article and profile in the Chronicle of Higher Education Biography of Jackson from IEEE Discussion with Charlie Rose "Shirley Ann Jackson Sticks to the Plan" by June Audrey, in The Chronicle of Higher Education (5 June 2007) C-SPAN Q&A interview with Jackson, January 2, 2005 Category:Women academics from the United States Category:Physicists from the United States Category:Women engineers from the United States Category:African Americans Category:1946 births Category:Living people Category:People from Washington, D.C. Category:Women scientists from the United States Category:National Medal of Science laureates Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni Category:Women born in the 1940s