Fred Lawrence Whipple
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Creator: Cornell, James
Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: 1982
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 371 Box 4
Fred Lawrence Whipple, Smithsonian Astorphysical Observatory Director from 1955-1973, admires the new sign for the observing station located in Arizona renamed in his honor. The Whipple Observatory had previously been known as the Mt. Hopkins Observatory before it was renamed for Whipple in May 1982.
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Featured in TORCH, June 1982
Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 371 Box 4
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1982
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Arizona
2002-32272
Color: Black and White; Size: 8 x 10; Type of Image: Event; Medium: Photographic print