Fred Lawrence Whipple (November 5, 1906 – August 30, 2004) was an American astronomer, who worked at the Harvard College Observatory for more than 70...

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...

The Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory is an American astronomical observatory owned and operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO); it...

magnetic particles that were apparently associated with the shower. Fred Whipple was intrigued by this and wrote a paper that demonstrated that particles...

world. The Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory is located on the mountain. The prime mover for the mountain's observatory was Fred Whipple, a professor...

States Army's Fort Myer Whipple (crater), a crater on the Moon 36P/Whipple, a periodic comet discovered by Fred Whipple Whipple (spacecraft), a proposed...

Once the British had passed the idea to the US via the Tizard Mission, Fred Whipple developed a system for dispensing strips for the USAAF, but it is not...

publication of Sagan's Science article, in 1961 Harvard University astronomers Fred Whipple and Donald Menzel offered Sagan the opportunity to give a colloquium...

The Fred Whipple Award, established in 1989 by the Planetary Sciences Section of the American Geophysical Union, is presented to an individual who makes...

number of longstanding hypotheses about comet construction, particularly Fred Whipple's "dirty snowball" model, which correctly predicted that Halley would...

emphasis on daytime observations. In 1956, he left to join Professor Fred Whipple, the Harvard astronomer, at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory...

cases. Comets can produce debris by water vapor drag, as demonstrated by Fred Whipple in 1951, and by breakup. Each time a comet swings by the Sun in its orbit...

Sun-god Helios' chariot, Phaethon's discovery was attributed to astronomer Fred Whipple. The meteors in this shower appear to come from the radiant in the constellation...

Massachusetts, to affiliate with the Harvard College Observatory (HCO). Fred Lawrence Whipple, then the chairman of the Harvard Astronomy Department, was named...

small material on the outskirts of the solar system".: 14  In 1964, Fred Whipple, who popularised the famous "dirty snowball" hypothesis for cometary...

produce debris by water vapor drag, as demonstrated by Fred Whipple in 1951, and by breakup. Whipple envisioned comets as "dirty snowballs," made up of rock...

afterwards. Based on preliminary estimations of Ikeya–Seki's orbit, Fred Whipple of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory conjectured that Ikeya–Seki...

Bristol, and modified with the addition of a dust shield (Whipple shield) as proposed by Fred Whipple. The shield comprised a thin (1 mm) aluminium sheet separated...

asteroid belt. It was discovered on 19 February 1933, by astronomer Fred Whipple at the Oak Ridge Observatory operated by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center...

Lyttleton suggested that Pluto may be an escaped satellite of Neptune, and Fred Whipple suggested in 1964 that Pluto may be a comet. The discovery of its large...

C/1942 X1 (Whipple–Fedtke–Tevzadze) is a non-periodic comet discovered on 8 December 1942 by Fred Whipple and independently, on later days, by Carl Fedtke...

breakup of the progenitor of Encke and the Taurid meteoroid stream. Fred Whipple in his The Mystery of Comets (1985, page 163) points out that Comet Encke's...

1952–1953 (Acting Director); 1954–1966 (Director) Leo Goldberg 1966–1970 Fred Whipple 1955-1973 George B. Field 1973-1982 (founding director of the Center...

Harvard Business School professor and president of BYU-Hawaii Fred Lawrence Whipple, astronomer Norbert Wiener, mathematician Robert Burns Woodward...

Kohoutek, ushering in what Fred Whipple termed a "'renaissance' of cometary research". At the time, most scientists accepted Whipple's hypothesis that cometary...

Freeman Gilbert 1982 Riccardo Giacconi Harrie Massey 1983 M. J. Seaton Fred Whipple 1984 Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich Keith Runcorn 1985 Stephen Hawking Thomas...

formation of the Geminid meteor stream. Shortly after its discovery, Fred Whipple observed that the "orbital elements of 1983 TB shown on IAUC 3879 are...

John Welsh Whipple (1876–1943), British mathematician and meteorologist Fred Lawrence Whipple (1906–2004), American astronomer George Whipple (1878–1976)...

biochemist, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Medicine. August 31 – Fred Whipple (b. 1906), American astronomer who coined the term "dirty snowball" to...

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...