Bernhard Hildebrandt Dawson, US-born Argentine astronomer (Kansas City, Missouri State 21 September 1890 – 18 June 1960)

Discovered Nova Puppis star or Dawson star (1942)

Identified a nebula surrounding a variable star (1928)

Two new variables. Astron. J. 30 (706):84, 1917

Forty-seven new double stars. Astron. J. 35(834):1478, 1924

METHODS

An improved slide rule for the addition of squares. Science 104 (2688):18, 1946

A simple procedure for photographing eclipses. Pop. Astron. 41:292, 1933

A new method for calculation of binary stars orbits

Un metodo abreviado de compensación (1948)

Una simplificación en la determinación del tiempo y latitud

HONORS

D.B. Pickering Nova Medal, American Association of Variable Stars Observers 

Dawson lunar crater

Asteroid 1829 Dawson