Irwin I. Shapiro

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Irwin Ira Shapiro (born October 10, 1929 in New York City ) is an American astrophysicist . Since 1982 he has been a professor at Harvard University . From 1982 to 2004 he was the director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics .

Life

Irwin Shapiro was born in New York City in 1929 . He first studied mathematics at Cornell University , then physics at Harvard University , where he also received his doctorate. In 1954 he joined the Lincoln Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and became Professor of Physics there in 1967. In 1982 he accepted a position at Harvard University and at the same time became director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics .

research

Shapiro's work includes research in the fields of geophysics (exploring the structure of the Earth's core ) and astrophysics .

An important area of ​​work was tests of general relativity , which were carried out in the solar system . The Shapiro delay , discovered by Shapiro in 1964 , was named after him, as was the asteroid (3832) Shapiro . More recently, he has worked on gravitational lenses and estimates of the age of the universe .

Honors

In 1969 Shapiro was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , 1974 to the National Academy of Sciences and 1998 to the American Philosophical Society . He won the William Bowie Medal in 1994 and the Charles A. Whitten Medal in 1991 , both awarded by the American Geophysical Union . For 2013 he was awarded the Einstein Prize of the American Physical Society , of which he had been a fellow since 1975.

Web links

Sources and references

  1. ↑ Shapiro Named First Timken University Professor , Harvard University Gazette, October 10, 1997, archive link ( memento of the original from September 2, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.news.harvard.edu
  2. ^ Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Celebrates 25 Years. In: Harvard University Gazette. October 15, 1998, http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/1998/10.15/Harvard-Smithso.html
  3. ^ Alcock to lead the CfA. In: Harvard University Gazette. May 20, 2004, archive link ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.news.harvard.edu
  4. ↑ Irwin I. Shapiro: Fourth Test of General Relativity. In: Physical Review Letters. Volume 13, 1964, pp. 789-791, doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.13.789
  5. ↑ MPC / Minor Planet Circ. 13610
  6. ↑ Irwin I. Shapiro. on the site of the Department of Physics at Harvard University
  7. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter S. (PDF; 1.4 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved March 23, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Shapiro, Irwin I.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shapiro, Irwin Ira (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astrophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City