Irwin I. Shapiro | |
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| Born | Irwin Ira Shapiro[1] 1929 (age 96–97) New York City,New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Cornell University Harvard University |
| Known for | Shapiro time delay |
| Awards | Albert A. Michelson Medal(1975) Dannie Heineman Prize(1983) Brouwer Award(1987) Charles A. Whitten Medal(1991) William Bowie Medal(1993) Albert Einstein Medal(1994) Gerard P. Kuiper Prize(1997) Einstein Prize(2013) |
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| Fields | Astrophysics |
| Thesis | Methods of Approximation for High Energy Nuclear Scattering (1955) |
| Notable students | Thomas A. Herring Steven J. Ostro Alyssa A. Goodman |
Irwin Ira Shapiro is an Americanastrophysicist andTimken University Professor atHarvard University. He has been aprofessor at Harvard since 1982.[2] He was the director of theCenter for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian from 1982 to 2004.[3][4]
A native of New York, Shapiro graduated fromBrooklyn Technical High School in New York City. He later received hisB.A. inMathematics fromCornell University, and later aM.A. andPh.D inPhysics fromHarvard University. He joined theMassachusetts Institute of Technology'sLincoln Laboratory in 1954 and became a professor of physics there in 1967. In 1982, he took a position as professor andGuggenheim Fellow[5] at his alma mater, Harvard, and also became director of theCenter for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. In 1997, he became the first Timken University Professor at the university.[2]
Shapiro's research interests includeastrophysics,astrometry,geophysics,gravitation, including the use ofgravitational lenses to assess theage of the universe.[6] In 1981,Edward Bowell discovered the3832 main belt asteroid and it was later named after Shapiro by his former studentSteven J. Ostro.[7]
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