Informal portrait of Fred Whipple
Abstract/Description: | Fred Lawrence Whipple (Harvard-Smithsonian) received the Gerard P. Kuiper Prize of the Division for Planetary Sciences for 'his research activities involving meteors and comets, which led to a better understanding of the physical properties of the Earth's upper atmosphere and provided information on the density of meteoritic material in space.' |
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Subject(s): | Full-face Portraits Eyeglasses Whipple, Fred L. (Fred Lawrence), 1906-2004 |
Date Created: | circa 1955-1957 |
Credit Line: | AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Physics Today Collection |
Catalog ID: | Whipple Fred B4 |
Title: | : Informal portrait of Fred Whipple. | |
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Type of Resource: | still image | |
Date Created: | circa 1955-1957 | |
Extent: | 1 photographic print (black and white; 7 x 5 inches) | |
Abstract/Description: | Fred Lawrence Whipple (Harvard-Smithsonian) received the Gerard P. Kuiper Prize of the Division for Planetary Sciences for 'his research activities involving meteors and comets, which led to a better understanding of the physical properties of the Earth's upper atmosphere and provided information on the density of meteoritic material in space.' | |
Identifier(s): | Whipple Fred B4 (Catalog ID) | |
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Credit Line: AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Physics Today Collection |
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Subject(s): |
Full-face Portraits Eyeglasses Whipple, Fred L. (Fred Lawrence), 1906-2004 |
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Held by: | Niels Bohr Library & Archives | |
Related Title: | Physics Today Collection. | |
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