thesis_year birth_place thesis_title awards nationality fields name notable_students birth_date thesis_url known_for article_title birth_name alma_mater
1955 new york city , new york , u.s. methods of approximation for high energy nuclear scattering albert -rrb- brouwer award charles a. whitten medal -lrb- 1991 -rrb- a. william bowie medal albert einstein medal gerard p. kuiper prize michelson einstein prize medal dannie heineman prize -lrb- 1983 american astrophysics irwin i. shapiro steven j. ostro alyssa a. goodman 10 october 1929 http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1955phdt........17s shapiro time delay irwin i. shapiro
 irwin ira shapiro cornell university harvard university
irwin i. shapiro

irwin ira shapiro -lrb- born october 10 , 1929 in new york city -rrb- 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 .
