Irwin I. Shapiro - Honors

Honors

Awards

  • Albert A. Michelson Medal of the Franklin Institute (1975)
  • Dirk Brouwer Award of the AAS's Division on Dynamical Astronomy (1988)
  • Charles A. Whitten Medal of the American Geophysical Union (1991)
  • The Albert Einstein Medal, 1994.
  • Einstein Prize, 2013 (this prize is awarded biennially in odd-numbered years, and he is the Recipient of 2013)

Named after him

  • The Shapiro time delay, discovered by Shapiro in 1964

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