Susan Kayser

Susan Elizabeth Kayser
Nationality	American
Fields	Astrophysics
Education	Radcliffe College, California Institute of Technology
Thesis	Photometry of the nearby irregular galaxy, NGC 6822
Doctoral advisors	Halton Arp, Jesse L. Greenstein
Known for	Development of the Gemini Observatory
Spouse	Boris Kayser

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.