| Maurice M. Shapiro  AKA Moishe Mendel Werner
Born: 13-Nov-1915
Birthplace: Jerusalem, Palestine
Died: 27-Feb-2008
Location of death: Alexandria, VA
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Composition and origin of cosmic rays Father: J. Simon Werner
Father: Asher Shapiro (Rabbi, stepfather)
Mother: Miriam Rivka
Wife: Ruth Auslander
Son: Joel N. Shapiro (b. Jul-1945)
Daughter: Elana Ashley
Daughter: Raquel T. Kislinger
Son: Mark Auslander
Daughter: Beth Kessler
Son: Lionel Ames
Daughter: Naomi Mirvis
High School: Crane Technical High School, Chicago, IL
University: PhD Physics, University of Chicago (1942)
Professor: University of Maryland
Administrator: International School of Cosmic-Ray Astrophysics, Erice, Italy
Manhattan Project Ordnance Division, Water Effects Group
American Physical Society Fellow (1946)
Association of Los Alamos Scientists Chairman (1946)
Los Alamos National Laboratory
US Naval Research Laboratory Director, Nuclear Physics Division (1953-65)
Phi Beta Kappa Society
Jewish Ancestry
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