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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.
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Francis Whipple
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From 1925 to 1939 he was superintendent of the Kew Observatory. In 1899, he showed that bicycles could be self stable. From 1899-1912 he was Assistant Master at Merchant Taylors" School, and he worked at the Meteorological Office from 1912-1925.
He served as president of the Royal Meteorological Society from 1936 to 1937.
