Robert Whipple (1871–1953)

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Robert Stewart Whipple (1871–1953) had a life-long connection with the world of scientific instruments. After starting his career at Kew Observatory and the instrument firm L. P. Casella, he moved to Cambridge in 1898 to work as personal assistant to Horace Darwin, the founder of the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company. He went on to become Managing Director of this firm and ultimately its Chairman. His interest in the practice of science and its history led him to amass an outstanding collection of antique scientific instruments and antiquarian books, which in 1944 he donated to the University of Cambridge to form the basis of a new museum and library. Whipple was keen for these new institutions to play an active role in research and teaching, and both would go on to serve as the centre around which the University’s Department of History and Philosophy of Science was established.

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

Cambridge

Title

Robert Whipple (1871–1953)

Date

1950

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 65.5 x W 55.3 cm

Accession number

Wh. 3988

Acquisition method

gift, 1993

Work type

Painting

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