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Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, theoretical physicist with her doctorate from MIT.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Shirley-Ann-Jackson

[quote]Shirley Ann Jackson (born August 5, 1946, Washington, D.C., U.S.) is an American scientist and educator and the first Black woman to receive a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Jackson helped develop technologies that made communication faster and easier and was an advocate for minority representation in academia, particularly in STEM disciplines.

...In 1973 Jackson became the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. from MIT, which she received in particle physics.

Jackson began her physics career at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (later Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois. She then served as a visiting scientist at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland. In 1976 she returned to the United States to work at Bell Laboratories, where she conducted research on two-dimensional condensed matter systems. While at Bell, she met her future husband, Morris A. Washington, another prominent physicist. Jackson remained at Bell until 1991; her research there contributed to the inventions of the touch-tone telephone, fiber-optic cables, caller ID, and call waiting. From 1991 to 1995 she taught at Rutgers University in New Jersey. She also began to work in public policy, offering Gov. Tom Kean her input on how to bolster university science and technology programs in the state of New Jersey.[/quote][/quote]

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