Nationality American Spouse Boris Kayser | Fields Astrophysics Field Astrophysics | |
Thesis Photometry of the nearby irregular galaxy, NGC 6822 Doctoral advisors Halton Arp, Jesse L. Greenstein Known for Development of the Gemini Observatory Education Radcliffe College, California Institute of Technology Academic advisors Halton Arp, Jesse L. Greenstein | ||
Susan Kayser is an American astronomer. She was the first woman to receive a PhD in astrophysics from California Institute of Technology, which attracted some media attention at the time. Her thesis research included the most thorough study of irregular galaxy NGC 6822 until 2002. She spent her career with NASA working on the Helios and International Cometary Explorer (later called International Sun-Earth Explorer-3) spacecraft radio astronomy experiments and with the National Science Foundation working on the Gemini Observatory.
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