Charles Dillon Perrine, US-born Argentine astronomer (Steubenville, Ohio State 28 July 1867 –Villa del Totoral, Cordoba Province 21 June 1951)

ACHIEVEMENTS

Discovered 9 comets (1895-1902) between them Perrine-Mrkos comet (1896), Perrine-Lamp (1896) and Perrine-Chofardet (1898)

Discovered 2 moons of Jupiter: Himalia (1904) and Elara (1905)

Developed a method for astronomical photographs

HONORS  

Prix Lalande, Académie des Sciences de France (1897) 

Perrine crater in Moon

Asteroid 6779 Perrine