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Fred Lawrence Whipple

1906 - 2004

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Fred Lawrence Whipple (November 5, 1906 – August 30, 2004) was an American astronomer, who worked at the Harvard College Observatory for more than 70 years. Among his achievements were asteroid and comet discoveries, the "dirty snowball" hypothesis of comets, and the invention of the Whipple shield. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Fred Lawrence Whipple is the 217th most popular astronomer (up from 260th in 2019), the 3,043rd most popular biography from United States (up from 3,781st in 2019) and the 41st most popular American Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Fred Lawrence Whipple ranks 217 out of 644. Before him are Sergey Belyavsky, Francis Baily, Erasmus Reinhold, Bengt Strömgren, Jean-Louis Pons, and George Ellery Hale. After him are Martin Schwarzschild, Adalbert Krueger, Heinrich Christian Schumacher, Henri Debehogne, Johannes Schöner, and Peter Andreas Hansen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Fred Lawrence Whipple ranks 111. Before him are Pierre Fournier, Chandra Shekhar Azad, Carol Reed, Phạm Văn Đồng, Missak Manouchian, and Rezső Kasztner. After him are Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, Gabriel Ramanantsoa, Dita Parlo, Enrico Mattei, Paolo Stoppa, and Wilhelm Boger. Among people deceased in 2004, Fred Lawrence Whipple ranks 91. Before him are Alan King, Marco Pantani, Shiing-Shen Chern, Juan Carlos Aramburu, Brian Clough, and Philip Abelson. After him are Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, Arnold Orville Beckman, Irina Press, Ann Miller, Russ Meyer, and Thomas Gold.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Fred Lawrence Whipple ranks 3,043 out of 20,380. Before him are Charles Curtis (1860), Maria Bello (1967), Ned Beatty (1937), George Ellery Hale (1868), Katey Sagal (1954), and George M. Dallas (1792). After him are George Gallup (1901), Mike Campbell (1950), Benny Blanco (1988), David Julius (1955), Pete Buttigieg (1982), and Asa Akira (1986).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United States

Among astronomers born in United States, Fred Lawrence Whipple ranks 41. Before him are Andrea M. Ghez (1965), J. Allen Hynek (1910), Nancy Roman (1925), Joel Hastings Metcalf (1866), Seth Barnes Nicholson (1891), and George Ellery Hale (1868). After him are Horace Parnell Tuttle (1837), William Wallace Campbell (1862), Charles T. Kowal (1940), William Cranch Bond (1789), Halton Arp (1927), and Elizabeth Roemer (1929).

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