Francis John Welsh Whipple

Francis John Welsh Whipple (17 March 1876 – 25 September 1943) was an English mathematician and meteorologist. From 1925 to 1939 he was superintendent of the Kew Observatory.

Whipple attended the Merchant Taylors' School and obtained a scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1895; he was placed Second Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos of 1897.

In 1899, he showed that bicycles could be self stable.

From 1899-1912 he was Assistant Master at Merchant Taylors' School, and he worked at the Meteorological Office from 1912-1925. He served as president of the Royal Meteorological Society from 1936 to 1937.

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