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Shirley Ann Jackson

1946 - Today

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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 879,901 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Shirley Ann Jackson is the 767th most popular physicist (down from 730th in 2019), the 10,107th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,049th in 2019) and the 169th most popular American Physicist.

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  • 880k

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  • 43.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Shirley Ann Jackson ranks 767 out of 851. Before her are Jürgen Kurths, Peter Zoller, Anatoly Logunov, Sidney Coleman, Robert Bacher, and Jacques Friedel. After her are Edward C. Stone, Stanton T. Friedman, Erwin Hahn, Charles Sheffield, Daulat Singh Kothari, and Hedwig Kohn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Shirley Ann Jackson ranks 679. Before her are Comunardo Niccolai, Faiza Al-Kharafi, K. C. Nicolaou, Pavao Pavličić, Oscar Zubía, and Viivi Luik. After her are Paul Cremona, Michael Coats, Tonicha, Lyudmila Titova, Clive Bunker, and Bruce Robinson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Shirley Ann Jackson ranks 10,107 out of 20,380. Before her are Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825), Dave Wottle (1950), Teri Polo (1969), Mike Honda (1941), Joe Lo Truglio (1970), and David Bordwell (1947). After her are Sydney Sweeney (1997), Carey Bell (1936), Lee Strobel (1952), Janice Rule (1931), David Costabile (1967), and Bob Kerrey (1943).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Shirley Ann Jackson ranks 169. Before her are William Stanley Jr. (1858), Frank Benford (1883), Conyers Herring (1914), Robert Marshak (1916), Sidney Coleman (1937), and Robert Bacher (1905). After her are Edward C. Stone (1936), Stanton T. Friedman (1934), Erwin Hahn (1921), James M. Bardeen (1939), Bertrand Halperin (1941), and James Hartle (1939).

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