Victoria Kaspi

Victoria Michelle Kaspi (born June 30, 1967) is a Canadian astrophysicist and a professor at McGill University.

[1] Kaspi was born in Austin, Texas, but her family moved to Canada when she was seven years old.

[5] Kaspi's observations of the pulsar associated with supernova remnant G11.2–0.3 in the constellation Sagittarius, using the Chandra X-ray Observatory, showed that the pulsar was at the precise center of the supernova, which had been observed in 386 CE by the Chinese.

[6] Kaspi's research with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer showed that soft gamma repeaters, astronomical sources of irregular gamma ray bursts, and anomalous X-ray pulsars, slowly rotating pulsars with high magnetic fields, could both be explained as magnetars.

[29] Her husband, David Langleben, is a cardiologist at McGill[3] and at the Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital in Montreal.