Shirley Ann Jackson
A lmost 40 years separate Shirley Ann Jackson's achievement, as the first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in theoretical high energy physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Jedidah Isler, the first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from Yale. Bouchet was also the first African-American to earn a PhD (at Yale in 1876) and only the sixth American of any color to earn the advanced degree in Physics. Almost 40 years separate Shirley Ann Jackson's achievement, as the first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in theoretical high energy physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Jedidah Isler, the first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from Yale. Yale's first African American student, Edward A. Bouchet, was born on September 15, 1852, on Bradley Street in New Haven, the son of William Francis and Susan Bouchet. 1872 William Henry Fitzbutler becomes the first African American to graduate from the U of M Medical School. 1874 Edward Alexander Bouchet becomes the first African American to receive a Bachelors Degree from Yale University. He ranks 6th in a class of 124 students. Jedidah Isler is the first Black woman to earn a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from Yale University. Isler, who is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Vanderbilt University achieved her historic mark in 2014. Isler discovered a love of the skies and stars around 12 years old when she was growing up in Virginia Beach, Va. And the needle is moving, however slowly. Jedidah Isler was one of the first three students to be accepted into the Fisk-Vanderbilt Bridge Program. Nine years later, she is the first black woman in the history of Yale University — a place still struggling to diversify — to earn a Ph.D. in astronomy. Bouchet was the first African American student to graduate Yale College (Class of 1874), and the first African American in the United States to earn a Ph.D. degree when he received his doctorate in physics from Yale in 1876.
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