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American astronomer who in 1950 proposed the 'dirty snowball' model of comet nuclei, fundamentally transforming scientific understanding of cometary composition.
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Fred Whipple ranks #269 of 398 in the Astronomer ranking, behind Tabetha Boyajian, ahead of Willem de Sitter.
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