Royal recognition for McGill’s very own Victoria

Dr. Victoria Kaspi, McGill's Lorne Trottier Chair in Astrophysics and Cosmology, has been has been named to the Royal Society, the world's oldest and most respected continuous scientific academy. Founded in 1660, it is the United Kingdom's national academy of science. Other McGill professors elected to its ranks include neuroscientist Brenda Milner and chemistry professor Allan Hay.

Kaspi is a world-renowned physicist known for her cutting-edge work on neutron stars, pulsars and supernovae remnants. In 2005, Kaspi and her team discovered the fastest-rotating pulsar known to science and more than 20 pulsars in a single star cluster in the Milky Way. Most recently, her team was the first to witness a cosmic act of recycling involving a dying pulsar.

Kaspi and her team of researchers outline their work in more depth in a video available online at: http://publications.mcgill.ca/headway/multimedia

On the Web: http://royalsociety.org/New-Fellows-2010-H-K/