Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson Earns Prestigious Oersted Medal from American Association of Physics Teachers

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Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson Earns Prestigious Oersted Medal from American Association of Physics Teachers

by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) Next time you glance at your phone, see an unwelcome name, and send that unwanted call to voicemail, know physicist Shirley Ann Jackson is the one who ha…

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On January 20, 1986, Ronald McNair (1950-86) was the first black astronaut killed during a space mission, when the space shuttle Challenger met with disaster. McNair, a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was assigned to the shuttle Challenger which blew up shortly after take-off.

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