PAJDUŠÁKOVÀ, L’udmila
* 29. 6. 1916, Radošovce, Slovakia
† 6. 10. 1979, Vyšné Hágy, Slovakia
astronomer
After the secondary modern school in Kláštor near Zniev, P. Completed her studies at the Pedagogical Academy and worked as a teacher at various middle-class schools from 1936 to 1944. In 1944, she ceased working as a teacher and continued her career as an assistant at the Astronomical Skalnaté Pleso Observatory. Until 1950 she studied astronomy at the Comenius University in Bratislava. On this condition she has been appointed director of the Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Tatranska Lomnica in 1958. She acted as director of the Institute until her death in 1979.
As an astronomer, P. dealt primarily with the observation of meteors, comets and the solar corona in the high altitude Observatory Lomnický Stift. While watching the 1973 eclipse she organized an expedition in Niger and found five new comets.Slovak Astronomical Society of the Slovak Academy of Sciences elected P. the president from 1962 to 1974. She has published over 100 scientific and popular science works, and was also active in peace and feminist movements.
