Vera Rubin, 88, Dies; Opened Doors in Astronomy, and for Women (Published 2016)

Vera Rubin in the 1970s, when she mapped the distribution of mass in spiral galaxies by measuring how fast they rotated.Credit...Carnegie Institution of Washington, via Associated Press Vera Rubin, who transformed modern physics and astronomy with her observations showing that galaxies and stars are immersed in the gravitational grip of vast clouds of dark matter, died on Sunday in Princeton, N.J.

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