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.
Career
In 2010, she was honoured with the Vainu Bappu Gold Medal by the Astronomical Society of India.
Achievements
Her Thesis on radio pulsars won the 2005 Pietro Tacchini Prize, awarded by the Società Astronomica Italiana for the best Doctor of Philosophy theses. In 2006, she became the first winner of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics"s Young Scientists Prize in Astrophysics award.
