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.
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.
See also
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.
- ^ Francis John Welsh Whipple in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
- ^ "List of Presidents". Royal Meteorological Society. http://www.rmets.org/about/history/presidents.php. Retrieved 20 December 2010.
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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