Dean Benjamin McLaughlin (born October 25, 1901, Brooklyn,[1] New York City; died December 8, 1965, Ann Arbor, Michigan, US) was an American astronomer.
[2] He was the father of the science fiction author Dean B. McLaughlin, Jr.
McLaughlin married fellow astronomer Laura Elizabeth Hill in 1927.
His proposal was partially confirmed in 1971 with the arrival of Mariner 9, which showed that strong winds could move dust around the planet, creating the changes of appearance formerly attributed to some kind of vegetation.
In 2014 NASA scientists announced they had discovered evidence of water in Mars' McLaughlin Crater.