Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/November 13

November 13:

• 1878 – Birth of Max Dehn, German mathematician (d. 1952)

• 1924 – Birth of Motoo Kimura, Japanese geneticist (d. 1994)

• 1927 – Birth of Billy Klüver, American scientist (d. 2004)

• 1971 – The American space probe, Mariner 9, becomes the first spacecraft to orbit another planet successfully, swinging into its planned trajectory around Mars

• 1994 – Death of Motoo Kimura, Japanese geneticist (b. 1924)