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
Read more about this topic: Irwin I. Shapiro
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