Vera Rubin
American · 1928–2016
Astronomer whose observations of galaxy rotation rates provided the first strong evidence for the existence of dark matter.
Wikipedia ↗“In a spiral galaxy, the weights of stellar orbits at large radii are predominately supported by the gravitational attraction of the unseen mass.”
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From her landmark paper providing evidence for dark matter. Co-authored with W. Kent Ford Jr.
“Still more interesting is the mystery of the dark matter. We have peered into a new world, and have seen that it is more mysterious than we had imagined.”
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