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Fred Lawrence Whipple

American astronomer.

Born November 5th, 1906 in Red Oak.

Died August 30th, 2004 at 97 years old in Cambridge.

Occupations
astronomer

For life be, after all, only a waitin’ for somethin’ else than what we’re doin’; and death be all that we can rightly depend on. Bram Stoker