Fred Lawrence Whipple (November 5, 1906 – August 30, 2004) was an American astronomer, who worked at the Harvard College Observatory for more than 70...
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The Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory is an American astronomical observatory owned and operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO); it...
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The Whipple shield or Whipple bumper, invented by Fred Whipple, is a type of spaced armor shielding to protect crewed and uncrewed spacecraft from hypervelocity...
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in space." pp. 30–31. Willy Ley "The heavens open." p. 32–33. Dr. Fred L. Whipple "This side of infinity." p. 34. Dr. Joseph Kaplan "Can we survive in...
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2006) Harold Varmus Gwen Verdon (died 2000) Lew Wasserman (died 2002) Fred L. Whipple (died 2004) Joseph Wilson (died 2015) Tiger Woods Herman Wouk (died...
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Zel'dovich 1984 – Olin C. Wilson 1985 – Thomas G. Cowling 1986 – Fred L. Whipple 1987 – Edwin E. Salpeter 1988 – John G. Bolton 1989 – Adriaan Blaauw...
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The Definitive Explanation of the UFO Phenomenon. Introduction by Fred L. Whipple. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-03596-9. LCCN 76016255. OCLC 2597609...
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von Braun, Frederick C. Durant, Alexander Satin, David Young, Fred L. Whipple, S. Fred Singer, and Commander George W. Hoover resulted in an agreement...
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(Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press), Autumn 1963, p. 439) Fred L. Whipple and J. Allen Hynek, "Stand by for Satellite Take-off" in Popular Mechanics...
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E. Margaret Burbidge 1985 Olin J. Eggen 1986 Albert Whitford 1987 Fred L. Whipple 1988 Gerard de Vaucouleurs 1989 Icko Iben, Jr. 1990 Sidney van den...
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Pickering 1966 Robert R. Gilruth 1965 Hugh L. Dryden (Posthumously) 1962 Charles Stark Draper 1961 Fred L. Whipple 1960 Homer E. Newell Jr. 1958 James A....
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month starting from April 2015 using the 1.2-meter telescope at the Fred L. Whipple Observatory along with another telescope located in Chile. The white...
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aluminum strips dropped in clouds from aircraft to confuse enemy radars. Fred L. Whipple, an astronomer, made detailed analytical studies of this and devised...
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Heinz Haber, Willy Ley, Oscar Schachter, Fred L. Whipple; Illustrations by Chesley Bonestell, Rolf Klep, Fred Freeman. New York: Viking Press, 1952. ASIN:...
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List of astronomy acronyms (section L)
(telescope) Fibre-Linked Optical Array Telescope FLWO – (telescope) Fred L. Whipple Observatory FMO – (celestial object) fast moving object, an asteroid...
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New Chemical Age Hugh D. Crone Chemistry 1986 The Mystery of Comets Fred L. Whipple Astronomy 1985 The Scientific Reinterpretation of Form Norma E. Emerton...
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Prize, American Astronomical Society 1984 Eugene M. Shoemaker 1985 Fred L. Whipple 1986 George W. Wetherill 1987 Donald M. Hunten 1988 Rudolph A. Hanel...
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"Master of the Whipple Gave Hope, Extended Lives". Oncologylive. Vol. 19/No. 16. 19 (16). OncLive. Retrieved September 21, 2021. "John L Cameron, M.D."...
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Madrid. The study group consisted of four scientists from the U.S. (Fred L. Whipple, Frederick I. Ordway III, A. G. Haley and E. B. Konecci), two from...
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Moon. Whipple was adopted and named after American astronomer Fred Lawrence Whipple by the IAU in 2009. "Planetary Names: Crater, craters: Whipple on Moon"...
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astronomer Fred L. Whipple. In 1955, as the recently appointed director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Whipple proposed...
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Plains (ERPI); James L. Sellers bw-11m December 31, 1941 video [692] Planets in Orbit - the Laws of Kepler (Film und Bild); Fred L. Whipple bw-10m February...
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1252 Celestia (category Discoveries by Fred Lawrence Whipple)
asteroid belt. It was discovered on 19 February 1933, by astronomer Fred Whipple at the Oak Ridge Observatory operated by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center...
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Grant has won a second time, sharing the award with his co-authors Elizabeth L. Humphrey and Pamela D. Scoville. Thomas Disch and Ursula K. Le Guin have...
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Clarke Best Related Book: Conquest of the Moon, by Wernher von Braun, Fred L. Whipple & Willy Ley Best Professional Editor: John W. Campbell, Jr. Best Professional...
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Frederick C. Durant III, Alexander Satin, David Young, Dr. Fred L. Whipple, Dr. S. Fred Singer, and Commander George W. Hoover agree that a Redstone...
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Massachusetts, in the United States, and named after astronomer Fred Whipple. Whipple orbits the Sun in the outer main-belt at a distance of 2.9–3.3 AU...
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1967 Harvey H. Nininger 1968 Ernst Öpik 1969 Harold C. Urey 1970 Fred L. Whipple 1971 E. L. Krinov 1972 Brian Harold Mason 1973 John Reynolds 1974 Edward...
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Babette 1987 BB Babette Whipple (1918–), American teacher, researcher, psychotherapist, and wife of astronomer Fred L. Whipple JPL · 8344 8345 Ulmerspatz...
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A. Newton (1888) George P. Merrill (1922) Stuart H. Perry (1945) Fred L. Whipple (1949) Peter M. Millman (1954) Mark G. Inghram (1957) Ernst J. Opik...
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