Ľudmila Pajdušáková

Ludmila Pajdušáková ( born June 29, 1916 in Radošovce ( Skalica ); † 6 October 1979) was a Slovak astronomer.

The specialty of Pajdušáková was the sun astronomy. As part of her work she discovered some comets, including periodic 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušáková. More comet, which was discovered by her, are C/1946 K1 ( Pajdušáková - Redbeard -Weber), C/1948 E1 ( Pajdušáková - Mrkos ), C/1951 C1 ( Pajdušáková ) and C/1953 X1 ( Pajdušáková ).

From 1958 to 1979 she was Director of the Observatory Skalnaté Pleso. According to her, the asteroid ( 3636 ) Pajdušáková was named.