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Shirley Ann Jackson

04/07/2008

Sir Paul Nurse, Lisa Randall, Harold Varmus, Shirley Ann Jackson, Dr. Bruce Alberts

Charlie Rose Science Series: The Imperative of Science

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imperative, Pfizer, Harvard, rockefeller, Rensselaer, disease, Paul Nurse, cancer, education, Memorial Sloan-Kettering, hospital, science, AIDS, College, teach, diet, learn, HIV, school, health

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Charlie Rose Science Series: The Imperative of Science with Paul Nurse, President of Rockefeller University, Harold Varmus, president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Shirley Ann Jackson, President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Bruce Alberts, Editor-In-Chief of Science and Lisa Randall of Harvard University.

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Shirley Ann Jackson

is an American physicist, and the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She received her Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973, only the second African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in physics in the United States.

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