Scientific Birthdays of Friday November 13

• 1715 -- Dorothea Erxleben, Physician
• 1821 -- William Hillebrand, German physician and botanist
• 1822 -- Herman H. J. Lynge, Danish bookseller
• 1835 -- Robert Kennicott, American zoologist
• 1836 -- Alfred M. Mayer, American physicist
• 1849 -- Hugo Weidel, Austrian chemist
• 1878 -- Max Dehn, German-American mathematician
• 1890 -- Aleksander Rajchman, Mathematician
• 1893 -- Mary Ellinor Lucy Archer, Australian librarian
• 1893 -- Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist
• 1897 -- Tilly Edinger, Paleontologist
• 1900 -- Samuel King Allison, American scientist
• 1908 -- C. Vann Woodward, Historian
• 1919 -- Mark Inghram, American physicist
• 1920 -- K. G. Ramanathan, Indian mathematician
• 1924 -- Motoo Kimura, Japanese scientist
• 1924 -- Petr Beckmann, Physicist
• 1927 -- Albert Turner Bharucha-Reid, American mathematician
• 1927 -- George H. Ludwig, American space scientist
• 1930 -- Timothy Smiley, British philosopher
• 1933 -- William J. Abernathy, American academic
• 1937 -- Joseph L. Fleiss, American statistician
• 1940 -- Yves Agid, French scientist
• 1942 -- Jeremy Jackson (scientist), American marine biologist
• 1950 -- David Broomhead, British mathematician
• 1951 -- Malcolm Perry (physicist), British physicist
• 1953 -- Stephen Paul (physicist), American physicist
• 1956 -- Christof Koch, American neuroscientist
• 1959 -- Lene Hau, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics, Harvard University
• 1964 -- Paul Graham (computer programmer), programmer, venture capitalist, author