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]

Education

  • In 1995, she graduated from Liceo Classico XVI Febbraio: Aosta, specialising in classical studies.[5]
  • In 2000, she graduated from University of Bologna with a Laurea degree in Astronomy.
  • In 2004 she obtained her Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of Bologna.

Awards and honours

  • 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.[6]
  • In 2005, she was part of the international group PulSE (Pulsar Science in Europe) awarded the Descartes Prize for "Excellence in collaborative scientific research"
  • In 2006, she became the first winner of the IUPAP's Young Scientists Prize in Astrophysics award.[7]
  • In 2006, she was awarded the SIGRAV prize for contribution to General Relativity and Gravitational Astrophysics.[8]
  • In 2010, she was honoured with the Vainu Bappu Gold Medal by the Astronomical Society of India.[9]
  • Asteroid 198634 Burgaymarta, discovered at Vallemare di Borbona in 2005, was named in her honour[4] .The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 5 October 2017 (M.P.C. 106503).[10]
  • In 2011, she was awarded the Marisa Bellisario prize, entitled "Women, Innovation, and Human Capital".[11]

References

  1. ^ Pulsar find boosts hope for gravity-wave hunters, CSIRO, 3 December 2003, accessed 2009-05-11
  2. ^ New Binary Neutron Star Will Test Einstein Archived 2008-12-03 at the Wayback Machine, Robert Naeye, Sky and Telescope, 2003.12.12, accessed 2009-05-11
  3. ^ Einstein Passes New Tests, Robert Naeye, Sky and Telescope, 3 March 2005, accessed 2009-05-11
  4. ^ a b "198634 Burgaymarta (2005 AN54)". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  5. ^ "ORCID". orcid.org. Retrieved 2025-07-13.
  6. ^ 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
  7. ^ 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
  8. ^ "The SIGRAV Prizes . SIGRAV". SIGRAV. Archived from the original on 2023-02-07. Retrieved 2025-07-13.
  9. ^ "Professor M. K. Vainu Bappu Gold Medal". Astronomical Society of India. Archived from the original on June 10, 2015. Retrieved June 10, 2015.
  10. ^ "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  11. ^ Malaspina, Marco. "Premio "Marisa Bellisario" a Marta Burgay". MEDIA INAF (in Italian). Retrieved 2025-07-13.
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