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By: Ashley Govea, Peishan Wu, Mary Reyes Granados, Jennifer Alvarado, & Britney Guevara
INTRODUCTION
DRIVING QUESTION
THE BEGINNING
THE BEGINNING
SHIRLEY ANN JACKSON
BIRTH DATE: August 5, 1946
LOCATION: Washington, D.C.
PARENTS: Shirley Ann Jackson's parents are Beatrice and George Jackson.
DISCOVERY
DISCOVERY
NAME OF DISCOVERY: The technology that enabled portable fax, touch tone telephone, solar cells, fiber optic cables, and the technology behind caller ID and call waiting
WHEN: 1976
WHERE: AT&T BELL LABS
WHY
- Shirley's father was her biggest inspiration towards her discovery, it started when her mother read her biography's. Later on, Shirley started getting into it and started exploring her curiosity.
- Shirley earned a diversity at MIT, which got her in to a university as the word began to spread.
WHY
- Jackson became the president of the Nation Society of Black Physicists, and began serving as a member of the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology. Jackson remains an advocate for women and minorities in the sciences and, since 2001, had brought needed attention to the “Quiet Crisis” of America’s predicted inability to innovate in the face of a looming scientific workforce shortage.
EXTRA FACTS
EXTRA FACTS
In 1973, Shirley became the first African woman to to achieve a doctorate degree in nuclear physics ,and be awarded with 53 honorary doctoral degrees.
Shirley is the highest paid president of a private
college.
She is currently the president of the prestigious Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Since she is a modern scientist most of her experiments benefited form her having already partly developed technology
INVENTIONS
THE FIRST
STRUGGLES
THE FIRST
George Washington Carver was the first recorded African American Scientist, that was born into slavery in 1864. George Washington Carver went to:
Iowa State Agricultural College. He earned a bachelor's degree in agricultural science (1894) and a master's degree in science (1896) from Iowa State Agricultural College (later University of Iowa State).
INVENTIONS
George Washington Carver focused on inventing things with peanuts, sweet potatoes, and other proudcts that helped farmers vary their crops and improve their diets.
Made Black History
Carver was the first African American to receive a Bachelor of Science degree in 1894. Then in 1896, Carver received many offers when he earned his Masture of Algriculture degree. The most attractive offer came from Booker T. Washington( whose last name George would add later on) of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
Made Black History
STRUGGLES
Despite what many might think, his inventions were praised and used around the country even though he was African American. It was extremly common for racial segregation and discrimination to occur mainly on race.
THE BIGGEST INSPIRATION
The inspiration behind Carver's success was when a couple from Winterset, Iowa, where he met the Milhollands, a white couple who immensely influenced his life and who he later credited with encouraging him to pursue higher education.
INSPIRATION
CHANGE
George Washington Carver lead the way for other African Americans scientists by bringing science to Tuskegee University for decades.
CHANGE
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Famous Black Scientists. (2020, January 10). Retrieved from https://www.biography.com/people/groups/black-scientists
“Jackson, Shirley Ann.” National Women's Hall of Fame,
www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/shirley-ann-jackson/.
“Shirley Ann Jackson's Biography.” The HistoryMakers, www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/shirley-ann-jackson-41.
Jackson, Shirley Ann. “Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.” President Shirley Ann Jackson Will Serve... - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
www.facebook.com/RPI.EDU/photos/president-shirley-ann-jackson-will-serve-as-the-commencement-speaker-for-the-col/10157097668067357/.
History.com Editors. “George Washington Carver.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 27 Oct. 2009, www.history.com/topics/black-history/george-washington-carver.
“Shirley Ann Jackson's Biography.” The HistoryMakers, www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/shirley-ann-jackson-41.
Encyclopedia.com. (2020). Shirley Ann Jackson (american Physicist) Encyclopedia.com. [online] Available at: https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/history/historians-miscellaneous-biographies/shirley-ann-jackson-american-physicist [Accessed 2 Mar. 2020].
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