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Marta Burgay
Marta Burgay
is an Italian
radio astronomer
whose initial claim to fame was being the
discoverer
of
PSR J0737-3039
, the first
double pulsar
, through using the 64-metre
Parkes radio telescope
in
Australia
.
Awards and
honors
Her Thesis on
radio pulsars
won the 2005
Pietro Tacchini
Prize
, awarded by the Italian
Astronomical Society
for
the best
Ph.D. theses.
In
2006
, she became the first winner of the IUPAP's
Young Scientists Prize in Astrophysics
award.
In 2010, she was honoured with the
Vainu Bappu
Gold Medal
by the
Astronomical Society of India
.
Asteroid
198634 Burgaymarta
, discovered at
Vallemare di Borbona
in 2005, was named in her honor. The official was published by the
Minor Planet Center
on 5
October 2017
.
