Bernhard Hildebrandt Dawson (September 21, 1890–June 18, 1960) was a U.S.-born Argentine

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 astronomer

Astronomer

An astronomer is a scientist who studies celestial bodies such as planets, stars and galaxies.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using...

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He was born in Kansas City

Kansas City, Missouri

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, Missouri

Missouri

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 and earned a B.S. from the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

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, 1916. From 1913 onward, he worked at the La Plata Observatory, Argentina. In 1933 he was awarded a Ph.D. from Michigan with a thesis titled, "The System Beta 1000 Plus Delta 31". He was a professor at Faculdad de Ingeniera de San Juan

National University of San Juan

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 from 1948 until 1955. His astronomical studies included southern double stars, variable star

Variable star

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s, occultation

Occultation

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s, asteroid

Asteroid

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s and comet

Comet

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s. On November 8, 1942 he may have discovered Nova Puppis. In 1958 he became the first president of the Asociación Argentina de Astronomía.

The asteroid 1829 Dawson

1829 Dawson

1829 Dawson is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 6, 1967 by Cesco, C. U. and Klemola, A. R. at El Leoncito.- External links :*...

 is named after him, as is the crater Dawson

Dawson (crater)

Dawson is a lunar impact crater that lies on the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon. It lies across a crater triplet: the southeast rim is intruding into the crater Alekhin; the northwest rim also intrudes into the larger satellite crater Dawson V, and the northeast rim is attached to...

 on the far side of the Moon

Far side of the Moon

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