Susan Kayser

Susan Kayser is an American astronomer. She was the first woman to receive a PhD in astrophysics from the California Institute of Technology,^[2] which attracted some media attention at the time.^[3][4][5] Her thesis research included the most thorough study of the irregular galaxy NGC 6822 until 2002.^[6] She spent her career with NASA working on the Helios and International Cometary Explorer (later called the International Sun-Earth Explorer-3) spacecraft radio astronomy experiments and with the National Science Foundation working on the Gemini Observatory.^[7]