Shirley Ann Jackson

CTL-E-1096 · Institution · other · b. 1946

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Theoretical physicist; first Black woman MIT physics PhD; NRC chair; National Medal of Science. Did NOT invent caller ID, touch-tone phones, or fiber optics (adjudicated False in this package's myth audit).

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from TECH-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-TECH-001:TECH-E-098; source research type(s): None. Sources populated 2026-10-03 from package provenance during the KG completion pass; external sourcing still pending.

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CultureTechLens research package CTL-DR-TECH-001 — entity record TECH-E-098 (research/CTL-DR-TECH-001/entities.json)

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Apartment houses and funeral parlor in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941Photo: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

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