Whipple may refer to:

People

Whipple (surname) Whipple is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Abraham Whipple (1733–1819), American Revolutionary War naval commander *A.B.C. Whipple (1918–2013), American journalist, editor, historian and author *Allen Whipple (1881–1963) ...

(including a list of people with the surname) *

Whip Jones Whipple Van Ness "Whip" Jones (November 8, 1909 – June 29, 2001) was a ski industry pioneer, founder, developer and the original operator for 35 years, of the Aspen Highlands ski area in Aspen, Colorado. Whip Jones and the company he found ...

(1909–2001), American ski industry pioneer, founder, developer and original operator of the Aspen Highlands ski area in Aspen, Colorado * Whipple Van Buren Phillips (1833–1904), American businessman, grandfather of H. P. Lovecraft, whom he raised

Fictional characters

Mr. Whipple Mr. George Whipple (also known as George the Grocer) is a fictional supermarket manager featured in television commercials, radio, and print advertisements that ran in the United States and Canada from 1964 to 1985 for Charmin toilet paper. Typica ...

, in American television ads for Charmin toilet paper * Whipple Jones (''The Bold and the Beautiful''), in the American soap opera ''The Bold and the Beautiful''

Places in the United States

Whipple, Ohio Whipple is an unincorporated community in southern Salem Township, Washington County, Ohio, United States. Although it is unincorporated, it once had a post office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail se ...

, an unincorporated community * Whipple, West Virginia, an unincorporated community * Whipple Lakes, Crow Wing County, Minnesota * Whipple Lake, Clearwater County, Minnesota *

Whipple Mountains The Whipple Mountains ( Mojave: Avii Kur'utat; Chemehuevi: Wiyaatuʷa̱) are located in eastern San Bernardino County, California. They are directly west of the Colorado River, Parker Dam, and Lake Havasu; south of Needles, California; north of ...

, a mountain range in southeastern California * Whipple Run, a stream in Ohio

In the military

*, three U.S. Navy ships named after Abraham Whipple *

Fort Whipple, Arizona Fort Whipple is a former United States (U.S.) Army post originally established at Del Rio Springs, north of present day Chino Valley, Arizona, and later relocated to a site in present day Prescott, Arizona. History The initial post was establish ...

, a fort established in 1863 in Arizona Territory near Prescott *Fort Whipple, historical name for the United States Army's

Fort Myer Fort Myer is the previous name used for a U.S. Army post next to Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, and across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. Founded during the American Civil War as Fort Cass and Fort Whipple, t ...

Science

Whipple (crater) Whipple is a lunar impact crater located on the lunar far side near the northern pole. The crater is located East of the prominent craters Byrd and Peary; the latter of which it is located on the rim of. Whipple is permanently shaded from t ...

, a crater on the Moon *

36P/Whipple 36P/Whipple is a periodic comet in the Solar System. It is the lowest numbered Quasi-Hilda comet. The comet nucleus The nucleus is the solid, central part of a comet, once termed a ''dirty snowball'' or an ''icy dirtball''. A cometary nuc ...

, periodic comet discovered by Fred Whipple * ''Whipple'' (spacecraft), proposed space telescope in the 2010s *

Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory The Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory is an American astronomy, astronomical observatory owned and operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO); it is their largest field installation outside of their main site in Cambridge, Mass ...

, an astronomical observatory in Arizona, United States *

Whipple Museum of the History of Science Whipple may refer to: People * Whipple (surname) (including a list of people with the surname) * Whip Jones (1909–2001), American ski industry pioneer, founder, developer and original operator of the Aspen Highlands ski area in Aspen, Colorado * ...

, a science museum of the University of Cambridge *

Whipple shield The Whipple shield or Whipple bumper, invented by Fred Whipple, is a type of hypervelocity impact shield used to protect crewed and uncrewed spacecraft from collisions with micrometeoroids and orbital debris whose velocities generally range betw ...

, a type of hypervelocity impact shield *

Whipple procedure A pancreaticoduodenectomy, also known as a Whipple procedure, is a major surgical operation most often performed to remove cancerous tumours from the head of the pancreas. It is also used for the treatment of pancreatic or duodenal trauma, or chro ...

, a surgery to remove the head of the pancreas, due to pancreatic cancer

People

Fictional characters

Places in the United States

In the military

Science

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