Biography
Irwin Shapiro was born in New York City in 1929. After graduating from Brooklyn Technical High School, Shapiro did an undergraduate in mathematics at Cornell University, and a master's and PhD in physics at Harvard University. Shapiro joined MIT Lincoln Laboratory in 1954 and became a professor of physics at MIT in 1967. In 1982, Shapiro became a professor at Harvard University and also director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He won the Charles A. Whitten Medal from the American Geophysical Union in 1991, and in 1997, he became the First Timken University Professor.
Shapiro's research includes using gravitational lenses to assess the age of the universe.
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