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Irwin Ira Shapiro (born October 10, 1929 in New York City) is an American astrophysicist and Timken University Professor at Harvard University. He has been a professor at Harvard since 1982.〔 〕 He was the director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics from 1982 to 2004.〔 〕 ==Career== A native of New York, Shapiro graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School in New York City. He later received his B.A. in Mathematics from Cornell University, and later a M.A. and Ph.D in Physics from Harvard University. He joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory in 1954 and became a professor of physics at there in 1967. In 1982, he took a position as professor and Guggenheim Fellow〔http://www.gf.org/fellows/13358-irwin-ira-shapiro〕 at his alma mater, Harvard, and also became director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. In 1997, he became the first Timken University Professor at the university.〔 Shapiro's research interests include astrophysics, astrometry, geophysics, gravitation, including the use of gravitational lenses to assess the age of the universe.〔http://astronomy.fas.harvard.edu/people/irwin-shapiro〕 In 1981, Edward Bowell discovered the 3832 main belt asteroid and it was later named after Shapiro by his former student Steven J. Ostro.〔http://www.springerreference.com/docs/html/chapterdbid/128747.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Irwin I. Shapiro」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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