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Shapiro, Ascher Herman


MIT Class of 1938


Department of Mechanical Engineering:Assistant 1938-1940; Instructor 1940-1943; Assistant Professor 1943-1947; Associate Professor 1947-1952; Professor 1952- 1962; Ford Professor 1962-1975; Institute Professor 1975-1986; Institute Professor Emeritus, Senior Lecturer 1986- , Department Head 1965-1974.

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Ascher H. Shapiro, 1944 [AHS 011]

Ascher H. Shapiro, 1949

Ascher H. Shapiro, 1962

Ascher H. Shapiro, 1965

Ascher H. Shapiro, 1971

Ascher H. Shapiro, 1974

Hunsaker, Soderberg, Den Hartog, Shapiro, Keenan, Stever, Richardson [JCH 025]

In "The Fluid Dynamics of Drag," Professor Shapiro (shown working with a camera crew above) measured the drag on spheres of different size and weight in water and glycerine, 1962. [AHS 005]

M.E. Dept. heads: Hunsaker, Soderberg, Denhartog, Keenan, Syever, Shapiro, Richardson [JCH 026]

Mechanical Engineering Department heads [JCH_25]

Samuel Groves, '34, and Ascher Shapiro, '38. Commencement 1965 [AHS 006]

Seven MIT Mechanical Engineering Heads gather [ME_0055]

The most distinctive and greatest American contribution to technology has been mass production and the concept that benefits of technological progress should be passed along in the form of higher incomes and lower prices. [ME_0735]

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