Fred Lawrence Whipple - Honors

Honors

Awards

  • Distinguished Federal Civilian Service Award, by US President John F. Kennedy (1963)
  • Leonard Medal of the Meteoritical Society (1970)
  • Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1983)
  • Bruce Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1986)
  • Henry Norris Russell Lectureship of the American Astronomical Society (1987)
  • Whipple Award of the American Geophysical Union (1990)

Named after him

  • Asteroid 1940 Whipple
  • Whipple Observatory on Mount Hopkins in Arizona
  • Whipple shield
  • Whipple House on Great Camanoe in the British Virgin Islands (not to be confused with the John Whipple House, in Ipswich, Massachusetts).

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