Honors
Awards
- Distinguished Federal Civilian Service Award, by US President John F. Kennedy (1963)
- Leonard Medal of the Meteoritical Society (1970)
- Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1983)
- Bruce Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1986)
- Henry Norris Russell Lectureship of the American Astronomical Society (1987)
- Whipple Award of the American Geophysical Union (1990)
Named after him
- Asteroid 1940 Whipple
- Whipple Observatory on Mount Hopkins in Arizona
- Whipple shield
- Whipple House on Great Camanoe in the British Virgin Islands (not to be confused with the John Whipple House, in Ipswich, Massachusetts).
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