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Oct 4, 2016 · How Vera Rubin confirmed dark matter. This famous astronomer carved herself a well-deserved place in history, so why doesn’t the Nobel committee see it that way? By Sarah Scoles |...
Aug 17, 2021 · Ashley Jean Yeager. MIT Press, $24.95. Vera Rubin’s research forced cosmologists to radically reimagine the cosmos. In the 1960s and ’70s, Rubin’s observations of stars whirling around...
- Uncovering The Dark
- Rubin's Early Years
- Rubin's Legacy
Swiss astronomer, Fritz Zwicky, first proposed the existence of dark matter in 1933 after observing the motion of galaxies in the Coma Cluster. The cluster of galaxies he observed should have flown apart if there was no additional mass holding them together. Lacking further evidence, his idea was quickly dismissed by the scientific community. Thank...
Rubin's affinity to astronomy began at a young age. She was born on July 23, 1928, from two Jewish immigrant parents who encouraged Rubin's scientific interests from the start. Her father helped her build a cardboard telescope, which she used to photograph the motion of stars. Her mother persuaded the librarian to let Rubin checkout science books f...
Rubin continued her research unveiling the presence of dark matter in numerous galaxiesduring the remainder of her career. The growing amount of evidence from her research would make the case for dark matter undeniable. In recognition of her contributions to astronomy, she was elected to the National Academy of Science in 1981. In 1993, President B...
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- Tim Childers
Rubin's calculations showed that galaxies must contain at least five to ten times as much dark matter as ordinary matter. [26] [27] Rubin's results were confirmed over subsequent decades, [1] and became the first persuasive results supporting the theory of dark matter, initially proposed by Fritz Zwicky in the 1930s.
- Vera Florence Cooper, July 23, 1928, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
- Astronomy
- December 25, 2016 (aged 88), Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
Feb 2, 2017 · The nature of dark matter is one of science's great unsolved mysteries. The answer will change how we think about the Universe. Rubin made her discovery by working closely with her colleague...
- Neta A. Bahcall
- neta@astro.princeton.edu
- 2017
Dec 25, 2023 · Three decades after dark matter was hypothesized, in a breakthrough moment, one astronomer collected the first direct evidence of dark matter’s existence. Her name was Vera Rubin, and...
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Apr 1, 2021 · How Vera Rubin encountered dark matter. Jacqueline Mitton. Astronomy & Geophysics, Volume 62, Issue 2, April 2021, Pages 2.22–2.28, https://doi.org/10.1093/astrogeo/atab055. Published: 01 April 2021. PDF. Split View. Cite. Permissions. Share. Abstract. Jacqueline Mitton examines one strand in the life and research of the pioneering astronomer.
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