John Adams Whipple | |
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.jpg) From the August 1851 edition of the Photographic Art-Journal | |
| Born | September 10, 1822 Grafton, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | April 10, 1891 (aged 68) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Photographer, inventor |
| Known for | Photographic pioneer |
| Spouse |
Elizabeth Mann
(m. 1847; died 1891) |
John Adams Whipple (September 10, 1822 – April 10, 1891)[1] was an American inventor and early photographer. He was the first in the United States to manufacture the chemicals used for daguerreotypes. He pioneered astronomical and night photography. He was a prize-winner for his extraordinary early photographs of the moon and he was the first to produce images of stars other than the sun. Among those was the star Vega and the Mizar-Alcor stellar sextuple system,[citation needed] which was thought to be a double star until 2009.[2]
- ^ Whipple, Blaine (2007), 15 Generations of Whipples, vol. 2, Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press, pp. G620–G627
- ^ "First known binary star is discovered to be a triplet, quadruplet, quintuplet, sextuplet system".