Irwin I. Shapiro

Details

Instance of

human

Born

10 October 1929, 1929

Place of birth

New York City

Sex or gender

male

Given name

Irwin, Ira

Family name

Shapiro

Field of work

astrometry, physics, radio astronomy, radar, gravity, science education, curriculum development, interferometry, geophysics, astrophysics, gravitational lens

Occupation

astrophysicist, astronomer, physicist, university teacher

Citizenship

United States

Awards

Guggenheim Fellowship, Albert A. Michelson Medal, Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics, William Bowie Medal, Gerard P. Kuiper Prize, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Albert Einstein Medal, Einstein Prize, Benjamin Franklin Medal, Charles A. Whitten Medal

academic degree

Doctor of Philosophy

doctoral student

Juan María Marcaide Osoro, Richard Joseph Greenberg

educated at

Harvard University, Cornell University, Harvard University, Brooklyn Technical High School

employer

Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

languages spoken, written or signed

English

member of

National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, International Astronomical Union

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