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Harold S. Shapiro was a mathematician born on April 2, 1928, in Brooklyn, and passed away on March 5, 2021, in Stockholm. Holding citizenships in both the United States and Sweden, his academic achievements include studying at the City College of New York and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Shapiro had a son named Max Tegmark, who is also the child mentioned in the relation father_of.
Shapiro worked under the guidance of doctoral advisor Norman Levinson, and he further supervised several doctoral students himself, including Björn Gustafsson, Michael Benedicks, and Hugh L. Warren. Throughout his career as a mathematician, Shapiro made significant contributions to the field, as well as mentored future generations of scholars.