| Catherine J. Cesarsky | |
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Catherine J. Cesarsky
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| Born | 24 February 1943 Ambazac, France |
| Residence | Germany |
| Nationality | French |
| Fields | Astronomer |
| Institutions | European Southern Observatory Germany |
| Known for | Designing the ISOCAM camera on board the Infrared Space Observatory |
| Notable awards | COSPAR Space Science Award (1998) |
Catherine Jeanne Cesarsky is a French astronomer currently residing in Germany, known for her successful research activities in several central areas of modern astrophysics. She was formerly president of the International Astronomical Union.[1] Educated at the University of Buenos Aires and at Harvard, she began her career at the California Institute of Technology and went on to work on cosmic rays, galactic gamma ray emission, and on work connected with the European Space Agency's Infrared Space Observatory.[2]
Cesarsky was for five years the director-general of the European Southern Observatory.[3] She has served on the committees of the Harvard College Observatory and the Space Telescope Science Institute.[4] She has also been involved in the Haut Comité de l'Observatoire de Paris, the Fachbeirat of the Max Planck Institut für Kernphysik (Heidelberg), the Max Planck Institut für Astrophysik (Garching) and the Max Planck Insitut für Extraterrestrische Physik (Garching), the Max Planck Institut für Radioastronomie (Bonn) and SRON (Netherlands).