# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/irwin-i-shapiro
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:35:17.516Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/irwin-i-shapiro"
name: "Irwin I. Shapiro"
slug: "irwin-i-shapiro"
description: "Irwin Ira Shapiro 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 Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian from 1982 to 2004."
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birthDate: "1929-10-10"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump