Juan Macon Thome, US-born Argentine astronomer (Palmyra, Pennsylvania 22 August 1843 – Cordoba 27 September 1908)

Authored the first four volumes of Cordoba Durchmusterung (CoD), a catalogue of 613,953 stars with international acclaim

Discovered a comet (1887)

SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY

Resultados del Observatorio Nacional Argentino en Cordoba (1877)

El gran cometa austral. Rev. Observ 2:35,

HONORS

Lalande Medal, Academie Française des Sciences (1901)