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Fred Lawrence Whipple

Fred Lawrence Whipple

Miller, Frederic P.
Vandome, Agnes F.
McBrewster, John

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Astronomy & Space

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ISBN10: 6132623604
ISBN13: 9786132623607
Publisher: Alphascript Pub
Pages: 86
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.21 Width: 9.02 Depth: 6.00
Language: English
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Fred Lawrence Whipple (November 5, 1906-August 30, 2004) was an American astronomer, who worked at the Harvard College Observatory for over 70 years. Amongst his achievements, he discovered some asteroids and comets, came up with the dirty snowball cometary hypothesis, and designed the Whipple shield.Whipple was born on November 5, 1906, in Red Oak, Iowa, as the son of a farmer. An early bout with polio ended his ambition of being a professional tennis player. Whipple studied at Occidental College in Southern California, then majored in mathematics at the University of California at Los Angeles, graduating in 1927. Recollecting his path from mathematics to astronomy, Whipple stated in a 1978 autobiography that his mathematics major veered [him] through physics and finally focused on astronomy where time, space, mathematics, and physics had a common meeting ground.

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