Susannah Lazar is an American

medical physicist A medical physicist is a health professional with specialist education and training in the concepts and techniques of applying physics in medicine and competent to practice independently in one or more of the subfields (specialties) of medical phys ...

, amateur

astronomer An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth. Astronomers observe astronomical objects, such as stars, planets, natural satellite, moons, comets and galaxy, galax ...

and a

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. She is affiliated with the

Highland Road Park Observatory Highland Road Park Observatory or Baton Rouge Observatory is an astronomy, astronomical observatory jointly operated by Louisiana State University's astronomy department, Baton Rouge Astronomical Society, and The Recreation & Park Commission for t ...

, where she co-discovered asteroid

20430 Stout 43 may refer to: * 43 (number) * one of the years 43 BC, AD 43, 1943, 2043 * Licor 43, also known as "Cuarenta Y Tres" ("Forty-three" in Spanish) * George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States, nicknamed "Bush 43" to distinguish from his fat ...

with Walter R. Cooney, Jr. at age 16, and named it after her late great-grandfather Earl Douglas Stout (c. 1895–1985). At the time she was a home school senior in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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National Young Astronomer Award
The Astronomical League 21st-century American physicists American women astronomers Discoverers of minor planets American medical physicists People from Baton Rouge, Louisiana Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 20th-century American women scientists 20th-century American astronomers American women physicists {{US-astronomer-stub

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