BS, Georgia Institute of Technology Jackson was born in Columbus, Ohio on September 24, 1953.
[3] After earning his Ph.D., Jackson worked as part of the Gate Dielectric Group at Hewlett Packard Laboratories, and then joined Rockwell International's Rocketdyne division,[2] where he worked on polychrystalline diamond thin films.
[4] In 1992, Jackson became the Associate Director at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's (LBNL) Center for X-ray Optics.
[5] At LBNL, Jackson and his colleagues developed Python-based programming tools that helped physicists efficiently distribute data.
One such tool, Py/Globus, was used to efficiently replicate data from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory to confirm Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity.