As per our current Database, Shirley Ann Jackson is still alive (as per Wikipedia, Last update: May 10, 2020).
Currently, Shirley Ann Jackson is 78 years, 3 months and 19 days old. Shirley Ann Jackson will celebrate 79rd birthday on a Tuesday 5th of August 2025. Below we countdown to Shirley Ann Jackson upcoming birthday.
| Popular As | Shirley Ann Jackson |
| Occupation | Physicist |
| Age | 78 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Leo |
| Born | August 5, 1946 (DC) |
| Birthday | August 5 |
| Town/City | DC |
| Nationality | DC |
Shirley Ann Jackson’s zodiac sign is Leo. According to astrologers, people born under the sign of Leo are natural born leaders. They are dramatic, creative, self-confident, dominant and extremely difficult to resist, able to achieve anything they want to in any area of life they commit to. There is a specific strength to a Leo and their "king of the jungle" status. Leo often has many friends for they are generous and loyal. Self-confident and attractive, this is a Sun sign capable of uniting different groups of people and leading them as one towards a shared cause, and their healthy sense of humor makes collaboration with other people even easier.
Shirley Ann Jackson was born in the Year of the Dog. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dog are loyal, faithful, honest, distrustful, often guilty of telling white lies, temperamental, prone to mood swings, dogmatic, and sensitive. Dogs excel in business but have trouble finding mates. Compatible with Tiger or Horse.
Famous as the first female and African American Chair of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, this prominent Physicist also served as President of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Over the course of her distinguished career, she worked for AT&T Bell Laboratories and taught at Rutgers University.
After earning her bachelor's degree in theoretical physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she became the first African American, female doctoral graduate of the same institution. Early in her career, she was a researcher at Illinois' Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
She sat on the Board of Directors of the Smithsonian Institution, the New York Stock Exchange, the Brookings Institution, and numerous other high-profile organizations.
The daughter of George and Beatrice Jackson, she spent her youth in Washington, D.C. Her marriage to university physics Teacher Morris A. Washington produced a son named Alan.
She is a contemporary of fellow renowned African American Physicist Jim Gates.
