Marta Burgay

Marta Burgay (30 November 1976, Torino) is an Italian radio astronomer whose initial claim to fame was being the discoverer^[1]^[2]^[3] of PSR J0737-3039, the first double pulsar (two pulsars orbiting each other), through using the 64-metre Parkes radio telescope in Australia.^[4]

Awards and honors

Her Thesis on radio pulsars won the 2005 Pietro Tacchini Prize, awarded by the Italian Astronomical Society (Italian: Società Astronomica Italiana) for the best Ph.D. thesis.^[5]
In 2006, she became the first winner of the IUPAP's Young Scientists Prize in Astrophysics award.^[6]
In 2010, she was honoured with the Vainu Bappu Gold Medal by the Astronomical Society of India.^[7]
Asteroid 198634 Burgaymarta, discovered at Vallemare di Borbona in 2005, was named in her honor.^[4] The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 5 October 2017 (M.P.C. 106503).^[8]

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^ Einstein Passes New Tests, Robert Naeye, Sky and Telescope, 3 March 2005, accessed 2009-05-11
^ ^a ^b "198634 Burgaymarta (2005 AN54)". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
^ Burgay, Marta, "Marta Burgay PhD Thesis", The Cagliari Pulsar Group, Cagliari Astronomical Observatory, archived from the original on 2013-09-27, retrieved 2012-01-03
^ Fridman, Alexia M. (2005), "The IUPAP young scientists prize in astrophysics", Astronomical and Astrophysical Transactions, 24 (3), Commission 19 (Astrophysics) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics: 149, Bibcode:2005A&AT...24..149F, doi:10.1080/10556790500481042, retrieved 2012-01-03
^ "Professor M. K. Vainu Bappu Gold Medal". Astronomical Society of India. Archived from the original on June 10, 2015. Retrieved June 10, 2015.
^ "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 24 August 2019.