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Shirley Ann Jackson

1946 - Today

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Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, (born August 5, 1946) is an American physicist, and was the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is the first African American woman to have earned a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics, and the first African American woman to have earned a doctorate at MIT in any field. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shirley Ann Jackson has received more than 852,602 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Shirley Ann Jackson is the 730th most popular physicist (down from 701st in 2019), the 10,072nd most popular biography from United States (up from 10,803rd in 2019) and the 159th most popular American Physicist.

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  • 41.24

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Shirley Ann Jackson ranks 730 out of 717. Before her are Léon Rosenfeld, Sidney Coleman, Narinder Singh Kapany, Ludvig Lorenz, Ayşe Erzan, and Walter Munk. After her are John Joly, Marcia Neugebauer, James Hartle, Daniel Kleppner, Jeffrey Goldstone, and Robert Serber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Shirley Ann Jackson ranks 611. Before her are Frank Kabui, Vladimir Astapovsky, John Prine, Charles Asati, Josef Augusta, and Georgi Markov. After her are Michael Clarke, Adolfo Nef, Tim O'Brien, John Trudell, Sergio Gori, and Rick Adelman.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Shirley Ann Jackson ranks 10,072 out of 18,182. Before her are Carrie Preston (1967), Gwynne Shotwell (1963), Constance Titus (1873), Isabel Jewell (1907), B-Real (1970), and Richard Price (1949). After her are Ben Cardin (1943), Michael Clarke (1946), Malvina Reynolds (1900), Angela Kinsey (1971), Camila Mendes (1994), and Viola Dana (1897).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Shirley Ann Jackson ranks 159. Before her are Robert Bacher (1905), Edward C. Stone (1936), C. R. Hagen (1937), Howard P. Robertson (1903), Erwin Hahn (1921), and Sidney Coleman (1937). After her are Marcia Neugebauer (1932), James Hartle (1939), Daniel Kleppner (1932), Robert Serber (1909), Bertrand Halperin (1941), and Seth Neddermeyer (1907).

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