Fred Lawrence Whipple
Affiliations: | Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States |
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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
Mean distance: 11.91 | S | N | B | C | P |
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Parents
Sign in to add mentor| Frederick Leonard | grad student | 1924-1927 | UCLA | |
| (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 (Astronomy Tree) | |
| (https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1986IrAJ...17..411., https://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/whipple-fred.pdf) | ||||
Children
Sign in to add trainee| Nicholas Ulrich Mayall | grad student | 1930-1931 | UC Berkeley (Astronomy Tree) |
| Richard Nelson Thomas | grad student | 1948 | Harvard |
| Carl August Bauer | grad student | 1949 | Harvard (Astronomy Tree) |
| James Walter Warwick | grad student | 1951 | Harvard |
| Bertram Donn | grad student | 1952 | Harvard (Chemistry Tree) |
| Harlan James Smith | grad student | 1955 | Harvard (Astronomy Tree) |
| Joseph Frank Veverka | grad student | 1970 | Harvard (Astronomy Tree) |
| Gerald Stanley Hawkins | research scientist | 1954 | Harvard (Astronomy Tree) |
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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 |