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Fred Lawrence Whipple

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Fred Lawrence Whipple was an American astronomer, who worked at the Harvard College Observatory for more than 70 years. Amongst his achievements were asteroid and comet discoveries, the "dirty snowball" hypothesis of comets, and the invention of the Whipple shield.

Books

Earth, Moon, and Planets
Earth, Moon, and Planets
Fred Lawrence Whipple
Survey of the Universe
Survey of the Universe
Fred Lawrence Whipple, Gérard De Vaucouleurs, Donald Howard Menzel
Conquest of the Moon
Conquest of the Moon
Wernher Von Braun, Willy Ley, Fred Lawrence Whipple
The Collected Writings of Fred L. Whipple
The Collected Writings of Fred L. Whipple
Fred Lawrence Whipple
Orbiting the Sun
Orbiting the Sun
Fred Lawrence Whipple
The Collected Writings of Fred L. Whipple
The Collected Writings of Fred L. Whipple
Fred Lawrence Whipple
Across the Space Frontier
Across the Space Frontier
Joseph A. Kaplan, Wernher Von Braun, Heinz Haber, Willy Ley, Oscar Schachter, Fred Lawrence Whipple

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