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Vera Rubin

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Vera Rubin

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Also known as Vera Cooper Rubin, Vera C. Rubin, Vera Cooper, Vera Florence Cooper Rubin

American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)

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Vera Rubin was an American astronomer who lived from 1928 to 2016. She was recognized as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Rubin authored five works, as recorded by Crossref. Her contributions to the field were documented in oral histories held by the Niels Bohr Library.

Rubin offered perspectives on the nature of scientific inquiry, noting that science is competitive, aggressive, and demanding, while also being imaginative, inspiring, and uplifting. She observed that science progresses best when observations force individuals to alter their preconceptions. Additionally, she stated that she was available twenty-four hours a day to women astronomers.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1911
Died
1985
Works
7

Top works

  • Ganja in Jamaica
  • Comparative Perspectives on Slavery in the New World Plantation Societies, Vol 292 of Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (Annals of the New York Academy of Science)
  • Cannabis and culture
  • Social and cultural pluralism in the Caribbean
  • CARIBBEAN STUDIES

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
4
Total plays
5

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

    · 2000 · cited 36,917x

  2. Maximum Likelihood from Incomplete Data Via the <i>EM</i> Algorithm

    · 1977 · cited 33,230x

  3. The central role of the propensity score in observational studies for causal effects

    · 1983 · cited 24,150x

  4. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 15,984x

  5. Inference from Iterative Simulation Using Multiple Sequences

    · 1992 · cited 13,109x

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Quotes

  • “Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting.”
  • “We have peered into a new world and have seen that it is more mysterious and more complex than we had imagined. Still more mysteries of the universe remain hidden. Their discovery awaits the adventurous scientists of the future. I like it this way.”
  • “There is one alternative to dark matter, and that is the assumption that Newton's laws don't hold over distances as great as galaxies. But we know that Newton's laws hold over a very large domain. And virtually one hundred percent of the physics and astronomy community believes that there is matter in the universe that does not radiate.”
  • “Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.”
  • “It is well known that I am available twenty-four hours a day to women astronomers.”
  • “How stars move tell us that most matter in the universe is dark. When we see stars in the sky, we're only seeing five or 10 percent of the matter that there is in the universe.”

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Encyclopedic overview

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Hubble's law · Redshift

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