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Fred Lawrence Whipple

Affiliations:

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States

Area:

Astrophysics

Website:

http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/BruceMedalists/Whipple/

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"Fred Lawrence Whipple"

Bio:

(1906 - 2004)
http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/49190.html
http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=12042&page=392
https://baas.aas.org/pub/fred-lawrence-whipple-1906-2004/release/1
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/497156

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Parents

Frederick Leonard	grad student	1924-1927	UCLA (Physics Tree)
(https://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/whipple-fred.pdf)
Armin Otto Leuschner	grad student	1931	UC Berkeley
(A Spectrophotometric Study of the Cepheid Variables η Aquilae and δ Cephei)
Ernst Öpik	post-doc	1931-1934	Harvard
(https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1986IrAJ...17..411., https://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/whipple-fred.pdf)

Children

Nicholas Ulrich Mayall	grad student	1930-1931	UC Berkeley
Richard Nelson Thomas	grad student	1948	Harvard
Carl August Bauer	grad student	1949	Harvard
James Walter Warwick	grad student	1951	Harvard
Bertram Donn	grad student	1952	Harvard (Chemistry Tree)
Harlan James Smith	grad student	1955	Harvard
Joseph Frank Veverka	grad student	1970	Harvard
Gerald Stanley Hawkins	research scientist	1954	Harvard

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Publications

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Cochran A, Veverka J, Bell J, et al. (2002) The Comet Nucleus TOUR (CONTOUR): A NASA Discovery Mission Earth, Moon and Planets. 89: 289-300
Whipple FL. (1994) The dilemma of the new-comet flux Planetary and Space Science. 42: 179-182
Whipple FL. (1987) A review of cometary sciences. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. 1572
Whipple FL. (1983) Comets - Nature, evolution and decay Highlights of Astronomy. 6: 319-331
Whipple FL. (1981) The nature of comets. Scientific American. 230: 1-20
Whipple FL. (1978) Rotation period of comet Donati Nature. 273: 134-135
Whipple FL. (1976) Background of modern comet theory Nature. 263: 15-19
Whipple FL. (1974) On the Growth of the Earth-Moon System Highlights of Astronomy. 3: 469-473
Menzel DH, Whipple FL, Vaucouleurs Gd, et al. (1972) Survey of the Universe Physics Today. 25: 54-55
Whipple FL. (1958) Notes On Comets, Meteors, And Planetary Evolution Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 70: 485

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