Telecommunications
Technology by Shirley Jackson
The telecommunications field has seen huge development in
the past few decades. It is quite hard to imagine life without the
technological inventions and developments. The contributions and inventions
made by Shirley Ann Jackson to the telecommunication space have been
phenomenal. Shirley made some of the best and game-changing inventions in the
world of technology. She came out with some of the best inventions which include
portable fax, solar cells, caller waiting and caller ID technology, touch tone
telephone and also fiber optic cables that has enabled overseas phone calls to
become clear and perfect. She is one of the well-known scientists and
physicists who contributed vastly to technological growth.
Shirley Ann Jackson
Shirley Jackson was born in August 5, 1946 to Beatrice
Jackson and George Jackson in Washington D.C. She showed keen interest in the
field of science and mathematics at a much early age and her parents encouraged
her skills and talents. She received a bachelor degree in theoretical Physics
in the year 1968 in Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In the year
1973, she completed her Ph.D., in elementary particle theory. It can be said
that she was the second African American woman to receive a doctorate in
Physics in United States which is quite a great achievement. Jackson conducted
several researches at many of the prestigious institutions across the Europe
and the United States in the 1970s.
Jackson also explored the interacting elementary particles
theory while she was a visiting scientist at the European Organization for
Nuclear Research.
Technology revolution
All of Shirley’s inventions were highly useful and paved way
for further growth and development of the technological space. Her caller ID
and Call Waiting technology inventions were regarded to change the
telecommunication space for the better. She carried out several researches and
experiments in theoretical physics while she worked at Bell Laboratories. She
examined the fundamental properties of different materials and got to know its
nature. Jackson is now the President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute which
is considered as the age old technology research and development university in
the United States. It also recently received the recognition as one among the
top 50 universities in the United States.
Her technological inventions have helped better life to a
great extent. She has won several honors, credits and recognition as a
scientist and she continues to contribute to the technological world by being
the President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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