Black and STEMbruary, Day 28

28. Shirley Ann Jackson, PhD

Dr. Jackson is the second black woman in the US to earn a doctoral physics degree, which she obtained from MIT in 1973. To this day, less than 2% of physicists are black. She conducted semiconductor research at Bell Labs, and was the first woman to serve on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. She was the president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from 1999-2022. Currently, she is serving on the Nature Conservancy Global Board.  

That's it for the month! Thank you for all your lovely comments and encouragement :) I enjoyed reading and learning about lesser-known figures and their contributions in a variety of fields: 

Aerospace Engineering
Astronomy
Aviation
Botany
Chemistry
Chemical Engineering
Computer Science
Electrical Engineering
Geology
Immunology
Marine Biology
Mathematics
Medicine-Cardiology
Medicine-Hematology
Medicine-Infectious Disease
Medicine-Ophthalmology
Medicine-Psychiatry
Medicine-Vascular Surgery
Pharmaceutical Sciences
Physics
Veterinary Medicine
Zoology