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.
In 1928, Rawson began his academic career with the University of Saskatchewan as a biology professor.[2] That year, Rawson started performing limnology research at Prince Albert National Park.[4] With his Saskatchewan research, Rawson remained in Prince Albert until 1934.[5] Between 1935 and 1960, Rawson wrote six publications about twelve Saskatchewan lakes he had studied. Some of these lakes he wrote about include Waskesiu Lake, Lake Athabaska and Cree Lake.[6] By the early 1960s, he had released over sixty articles.[7]
While working for the University of Saskatchewan until 1961, Rawson became in charge of the Fisheries Laboratory in 1948 and head of biology the following year. He continued to hold both positions until ending his tenure at the Fisheries Laboratory in 1960.[10] As an executive, Rawson was named the president of the Limnological Society of America in 1947. In 1958, he co-established the Canadian Society of Wildlife and Fishery Biologists.[11]
^ abNursall, J.R. (16 December 2013). "Donald Strathearn Rawson". Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
^ abSterling, Keir B.; Harmond, Richard P.; Cevasco, George A.; Hammond, Lorne F., eds. (1997). "Rawson, Donald Strathearn". Biographical dictionary of American and Canadian naturalists and environmentalists. Wesport, Connecticut & London: Greenwood Press. p. 666. ISBN0313230471. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
^Cattell, Jaques, ed. (1949). "Rawson, Prof. D(onald) S.". American Men of Science (Eighth ed.). Lancaster, Pennsylvania: The Science Press. p. 2023.
^McKay, W. A., ed. (1978). "Rawson, Donald Strathearn". The Macmillan dictionary of Canadian biography (Fourth ed.). Toronto: Macmillan of Canada. p. 693. ISBN0770514626. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
^"Donald Strathearn Rawson 1905-1961". Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada. 18 (4): 481. September 12, 1961.
^Tressler, Willis L. (December 1957). "The Ostracoda of Great Slave Lake". Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 47 (12): 415–423. JSTOR24533616.
