Francis John Welsh Whipple

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Francis John Welsh Whipple

Kew Observatory
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Biography

Whipple was the son of Kew Observatory employees George Mathews Whipple and

Elizabeth Beckley, an astronomical photographer.[1]

Whipple attended

Second Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos of 1897.[3] In 1899, he showed that bicycles could be self stable.[4][5][6]

Career

From 1899–1912, he was an assistant master at Merchant Taylors' School, and then worked at the

Kew Observatory, where he succeeded Charles Chree. Whipple remained in this post until he retired in 1939.[3] He also served as president of the Royal Meteorological Society from 1936 to 1937.[8]

In his role as Superintendent of

ScD
degree from Cambridge in 1929.

Family and connections

Francis Whipple had an older brother,

scientific instruments and books was the basis of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science in Cambridge.[13] Whipple's father, George Whipple, was superintendent of Kew Observatory from 1876-1893; as was George's godfather, John Welsh, from 1852-1859.[14]

See also

  • Whipple's transformation of Legendre functions

References

  1. ^ Macdonald, Lee (9 March 2017). "'Work peculiarly fitting to a lady': Elizabeth Beckley and the early years of solar photography". conscicom.org. Archived from the original on 8 May 2019. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  2. ^ C. P. B. Hodgson (1965). The First Eighty Years of Willington School. Willington School, Colinette Road, London SW15. p. 3.
  3. ^
    ISBN 0-7136-2131-1
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  4. S2CID 12296078
    . Retrieved 16 April 2011.
  5. ^ Roger Highfield (June 2007). "The mathematical way to ride a bike". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 24 November 2010. Retrieved 16 April 2011.
  6. S2CID 18309860
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  7. ^ "Whipple, Francis John Welsh (WHPL894FJ)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  8. doi:10.1002/j.1477-8696.1993.tb05917.x
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  9. ^ http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/hazard/pdf/wl9913.pdf
  10. S2CID 4135663
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  11. S2CID 31552396
    – via www.nature.com.
  12. doi:10.1002/j.1477-8696.1993.tb05917.x
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  13. ISBN 0-7136-2598-8
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  14. ^ "Papers of Francis John Welsh Whipple (1876 - 1943)".

External links

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