Donald_Strathearn_Rawson
Donald Strathearn Rawson (19 May 1905 – 16 February 1961) was a Canadian limnologist who worked with the University of Saskatchewan from 1928 to 1961. For his research, Rawson wrote six publications about twelve lakes he had researched in Saskatchewan. He additionally conducted lake investigations in Western Canada during the 1930s and the Northwest Territories in the 1940s. While with the university, Rawson was both in charge of their Fisheries Laboratory and head of biology from the late 1940s to early 1960s. In 1944, Rawson was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. For Canada, Rawson was posthumously named a Person of National Historic Significance in 2019.