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Irwin I. Shapiro

1929 - Today

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Irwin Ira Shapiro is an American astrophysicist and Timken University Professor at Harvard University. He has been a professor at Harvard since 1982. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Irwin I. Shapiro has received more than 61,255 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Irwin I. Shapiro is the 560th most popular astronomer (down from 495th in 2019), the 10,674th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,938th in 2019) and the 112th most popular American Astronomer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Irwin I. Shapiro ranks 560 out of 644. Before him are Scott S. Sheppard, Thomas Romney Robinson, Richard A. Proctor, Mary Ward, Bruce C. Murray, and John August Anderson. After him are Makio Akiyama, Alfred Bohrmann, Thomas Bopp, Robert Herman, David L. Rabinowitz, and Kazuro Watanabe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Irwin I. Shapiro ranks 495. Before him are Antonina Seredina, Edith M. Flanigen, Joseph Mascolo, Sofia Muratova, Bhanu Athaiya, and Yelizaveta Bagryantseva. After him are Amanda Blake, William E. Thornton, Ursula Knab, Henry Proctor, Ottó Boros, and Dick Button.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Irwin I. Shapiro ranks 10,674 out of 20,380. Before him are Marion Zinderstein (1896), Ted Demme (1963), Roy Clark (1933), Merle Travis (1917), Tom Price (1933), and Evelyn Hooker (1907). After him are Kay Lenz (1953), John DiMaggio (1968), Dave Coulier (1959), Eric Mabius (1971), Brewster H. Shaw (1945), and Lyle Campbell (1942).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Irwin I. Shapiro ranks 112. Before him are Helen Sawyer Hogg (1905), Anne Sewell Young (1871), David Rittenhouse (1732), Scott S. Sheppard (1977), Bruce C. Murray (1931), and John August Anderson (1876). After him are Thomas Bopp (1949), Robert Herman (1914), David L. Rabinowitz (1960), Peter Goldreich (1939), A. E. Douglass (1867), and Margaret Harwood (1885).

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