George Mathews Whipple (15 September 1842 – 8 February 1893), was a British physicist who was superintendent of the Kew Observatory.
The Observatory also tested barometers, thermometers, anemometers, telescopes, chronometers, watches, photographic lenses, etc.
He carried out pendulum experiments for determining the constant of gravitation with Captain William James Heaviside of the Indian Survey in 1873, with Colonel John Herschel of the Royal Engineers in 1881, and with General James Thomas Walker in 1888.
[8] He married Elizabeth Beckley (1846–1927), a pioneering British astronomical photographer who worked at the Observatory, at St John's Church, Richmond, in 1870.
Their fourth son was Francis Whipple who was superintendent at Kew Observatory from 1925 to 1939.