Francis John Welsh Whipple ScD FInstP (17 March 1876 – 25 September 1943) was an English mathematician, meteorologist and seismologist.
[2] From here, he obtained a scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1895, where he was placed Second Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos of 1897.
[4][5][6] From 1899–1912, he was an assistant master at Merchant Taylors' School, and then worked at the Meteorological Office from 1912.
[7] From 1925, he was Assistant-Director of the Meteorological Office and Superintendent of Kew Observatory, where he succeeded Charles Chree.
Whipple was a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, and was awarded the ScD degree from Cambridge in 1929.