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...recognition of his outstanding scientific contribution, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Professor of Physics Irwin I. Shapiro has been appointed by the University's governing board as Timken university professor...
After spending 26 years at MIT as a research staff assistant and as a professor of geophysics and physics, Shapiro in 1983 became director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CFA) and professor of astronomy and physics...
...Irwin Shapiro is an imaginative and broad-ranging astrophysicist who has greatly advanced our knowledge of the universe while also helping both teachers and students to reach a deeper understanding of the nature of scientific thought," said President Neil L. Rudenstine in a statement...
Journeying through centuries of placebo usage, the first essay of the book aims to determine whether or not the placebo is "much ado about nothing"; co-authors Arthur Shapiro and his wife Elaine present the reader with a flurry of esoteric yet entertaining historical tidbits. Though the knowledge that the 17th-century drug called "Vigo's plaster" was made of viper's flesh, live frogs, and worms may not necessarily be the best conversation-starter, such detail paints an elaborate portrait of the blind, haphazard healing practices of prescientific medics at which even the least scientifically-inclined person can gasp...
...Shapiro, a first-year law student, said he objects to one of Yang's mannerisms. "If he thinks you're interested in the Mideast truck he'll give you a dirty look," Shapiro said...