Marta Burgay (30 November 1976,

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whose initial claim to fame was being the discoverer of

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, the first double pulsar (two pulsars orbiting each other), through using the 64-metre

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in Australia.

Awards and honors

* Her Thesis on radio pulsars won the 2005 ''Pietro Tacchini Prize'', awarded by the Italian Astronomical Society ( it, Società Astronomica Italiana, link=no) for the best Ph.D. thesis. * In 2006, she became the first winner of the

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'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 ().

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