He is remembered for his work in theoretical astrophysics and other topics, as well as for his 1962 book on extraterrestrial life, the revised and expanded version of which was co-authored by American astronomer Carl Sagan in 1966 as Intelligent Life in the Universe.
Pada tahun 1962, ia menulis buku mengenai kehidupan di luar Bumi, dan kemudian pada tahun 1966 ia menulis buku Intelligent Life in the Universe bersama dengan astronom Amerika Carl Sagan.
He won the Lenin Prize in 1960 and the Bruce Medal in 1972.
Ia memenangkan Hadiah Lenin pada tahun 1960 dan Medali Bruce pada tahun 1972.
Asteroid 2849 Shklovskij and the crater Shklovsky (on the Martian moon Phobos) are named in his honor.
Asteroid 2849 Shklovskij dan kawah Shklovsky di Fobos (satelit alami Mars) dinamai untuk menghormatinya.
He was a Corresponding Member of Soviet Academy of Sciences since 1966.
Ia menjadi anggota Akademi Sains Soviet dari tahun 1966.
He showed, in 1946, that the radio-wave radiation from the Sun emanates from the ionized layers of its corona, and he developed a mathematical method for discriminating between thermal and nonthermal radio waves in the Milky Way.
Ia menunjukkan pada tahun 1946 bahwa radiasi gelombang radio dari Matahari berasal dari lapisan-lapisan yang terionisasi di koronanya, dan ia mengembangkan metode matematis untuk membedakan gelombang radio termal dan nontermal di Galaksi Bima Sakti.
His 1962 book, Вселенная, жизнь, разум (Universe, Life, Intelligence), was expanded upon and re-issued in 1966 with American astronomer Carl Sagan as co-author under the title Intelligent Life in the Universe (1966).
Pada tahun 1962, ia menulis buku mengenai kehidupan di luar Bumi, dan kemudian pada tahun 1966 ia menulis buku Intelligent Life in the Universe bersama dengan astronom Amerika Carl Sagan.
His memoir, Five Billion Vodka Bottles to the Moon: Tales of a Soviet Scientist, was published posthumously in 1991 by W.W. Norton & Co.
0024-7 I.S. Shklovsky: Five Billion Vodka Bottles to the Moon: Tales of a Soviet Scientist, W.W. Norton & Company, 1991.
" I.S. Shklovsky: Cosmic Radio Waves, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1960 I.S. Shklovsky: Вселенная, жизнь, разум (English: Universe, Life, Intelligence), Moscow, USSR Academy of Sciences Publisher, 1962 Revised and extended English translation of this book, coauthored with Carl Sagan, was first published in 1966, under the name Intelligent Life in the Universe, one of the latest reissues was published in 1998 by Emerson-Adams Press (ISBN 1-892803-02-X) I.S. Shklovsky: Physics of the Solar Corona, Pergamon Press, Oxford, UK, 1965 I.S. Shklovskii, Supernovae, New York: Wiley, 1968 I.S. Shklovsky: Stars: Their Birth, Life, Death, San Francisco, 1978, ISBN 0-7167-
1960 I.S. Shklovsky: Вселенная, жизнь, разум (bahasa Inggris: Universe, Life, Intelligencecode: en is deprecated ), Moscow, USSR Academy of Sciences Publisher, 1962 Revised and extended English translation of this book, coauthored with Carl Sagan, was first published in 1966, under the name Intelligent Life in the Universe, one of the latest reissues was published in 1998 by Emerson-Adams Press (ISBN 1-892803-02-X) I.S. Shklovsky: Physics of the Solar Corona, Pergamon Press, Oxford, UK, 1965 I.S. Shklovskii, Supernovae, New York: Wiley, 1968 I.S. Shklovsky: Stars: Their Birth, Life, Death,San Francisco, 1978, ISBN 0-7167-