Francis John Welsh Whipple
Francis John Welsh Whipple (1876-1943) was a British mathematician and meteorologist. From 1925 to 1939 he was superintendent of the Kew Observatory.
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[edit] Biography
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.[1][2][3]
From 1899-1912 he was Assistant Master at Merchant Taylors' School, and he worked at the Meteorological Office from 1912-1925.[4] He served as president of the Royal Meteorological Society from 1936 to 1937.[5]
Among other things he worked on meteorites. Together with C. C. Wylie he could show by photographs that meteorites have elliptical orbits, thus disproving the hypothesis of their interstellar origin.
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[edit] References
- ^ J. D. G. Kooijman, J. P. Meijaard, J. M. Papadopoulos, A. Ruina, and A. L. Schwab (April 15, 2011). "A bicycle can be self-stable without gyrosocpic or caster effects" (PDF). Science 332 (6027): 339–342. Bibcode 2011Sci...332..339K. doi:10.1126/science.1201959. http://bicycle.tudelft.nl/stablebicycle/StableBicyclev34Revised.pdf. Retrieved 2011-04-16.
- ^ Roger Highfield (Jun 2007). "The mathematical way to ride a bike". The Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/3296637/The-mathematical-way-to-ride-a-bike.html. Retrieved 2011-04-16.
- ^ J. P. Meijaard, J. M. Papadopoulos, A. Ruina, and A. L. Schwab (2007). "Linearized dynamics equations for the balance and steer of a bicycle: a benchmark and review" (PDF). Proc. R. Soc. A. 463 (2084): 1955–1982. Bibcode 2007RSPSA.463.1955M. doi:10.1098/rspa.2007.1857. http://audiophile.tam.cornell.edu/~als93/Publications/06PA0459BicyclePaperv45.pdf.
- ^ Venn, J.; Venn, J. A., eds. (1922–1958). "Francis John Welsh Whipple". Alumni Cantabrigienses (10 vols) (online ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- ^ "List of Presidents". Royal Meteorological Society. http://www.rmets.org/about/history/presidents.php. Retrieved 20 December 2010.
[edit] External links
- W. N., Bailey (1943). "Francis John Welsh Whipple" (full text). Journal of the London Mathematical Society s1-18 (4): 249. doi:10.1112/jlms/s1-18.4.249. Obituary of Francis John Welsh Whipple by W. N. Bailey: J. London Math. Soc., October 1943; s1-18: 249 - 256
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