Irwin I. Shapiro
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Career
A native of New York, Shapiro graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School in New York City. He later received his B.A. in Mathematics from Cornell University, and later a M.A. and Ph.D in Physics from Harvard University. He joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory in 1954 and became a professor of physics there in 1967. In 1982, he took a position as professor and Guggenheim Fellow[4] at his alma mater, Harvard, and also became director of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. In 1997, he became the first Timken University Professor at the university.[1]
Shapiro's research interests include astrophysics, astrometry, geophysics, gravitation, including the use of gravitational lenses to assess the age of the universe.[5] In 1981, Edward Bowell discovered the 3832 main belt asteroid and it was later named after Shapiro by his former student Steven J. Ostro.[6]
Recognition
Honors and awards
- Albert A. Michelson Medal from the Franklin Institute (1975)[7]
- Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics from the American Astronomical Society (1983)
- Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement (1984)[8]
- Brouwer Award from the American Astronomical Society's Division on Dynamical Astronomy (1988)
- Charles A. Whitten Medal from the American Geophysical Union (1991)
- William Bowie Medal from the American Geophysical Union (1993)
- Albert Einstein Medal from the Albert Einstein Society (1994)
- Gerard P. Kuiper Prize from the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences (1997)
- Einstein Prize from the American Physical Society (2013)[9]
- Elected Member of the American Philosophical Society in 1998.[10]
- Elected a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society in 2020.[11]
Eponyms
- Shapiro time delay, discovered by Shapiro in 1964
- 3832 Shapiro, asteroid named after Shapiro in 1981
References
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- Living people
- Brooklyn Technical High School alumni
- Scientists from New York City
- American astrophysicists
- Cornell University alumni
- Harvard University alumni
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science faculty
- Harvard University faculty
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- American relativity theorists
- Winners of the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics
- Albert Einstein Medal recipients
- MIT Lincoln Laboratory people
- Fellows of the American Physical Society
- Fellows of the American Astronomical Society