About Dean Benjamin McLaughlin
Lived 1901 – 1965 (aged 64). Dean Benjamin McLaughlin was an American astronomer.
Biography Born in Brooklyn, New York, McLaughlin received his B.S. (1923), his M.S. (1924) and his Ph.D. (1927) all from Michigan. His doctorate was awarded with a thesis titled, Spectrographic Studies of Eclipsing Binaries. McLaughlin married fellow astronomer Laura Elizabeth Hill in 1927.
McLaughlin was a professor at the University of Michigan for 38 years
A crater on Mars was named in his honor, as is the crater McLaughlin on the far side of the Moon and the asteroid 2024 McLaughlin. In 2014 NASA scientists announced they had discovered evidence of water in Mars' McLaughlin Crater.
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American astronomer (1901-1965)
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Dean Benjamin McLaughlin was born on 25 October 1901 in Brooklyn.
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Dean Benjamin McLaughlin died on 8 December 1965 in Ann Arbor.
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