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The Remarkable Career of Shirley Ann Jackson
January 2018
The first African-American woman to earn an MIT doctorate, Shirley Ann Jackson ’68, PhD ’73, worked to help the Institute begin to diversify. She then applied her mix of vision and pragmatism in the lab, in Washington, and at the helm of a major research university.
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