Description
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.
Born
November 5th, 1906 in Red Oak / Died: Aug 30th, 2004 - Heart And Lung Failure
Last Changes
2010/07/13
New Scanned Autograph (TTM/Prob.Auth)
2004/09/01
The celebrity has been marked as passed away
2004/05/20
New Scanned Autograph (TTM/Prob.Auth)