Date of Birth | 05-November-1906 | |
Place of Birth |
Red Oak (Montgomery County, Iowa, United States of America) |
|
Nationality | United States of America | |
Also know as | Fred L. Whipple | |
Profession | Astronomer | |
Fred Lawrence Whipple 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. |
Awards by Fred Lawrence Whipple |
||||||||
Check all the awards nominated and won by Fred Lawrence Whipple. | ||||||||
1986 |
||||||||
1954
|