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Vera Rubin
Sign in to saveAlso known as Vera Cooper Rubin, Vera C. Rubin, Vera Cooper, Vera Florence Cooper Rubin
American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)
Vera Rubin was an American astronomer and physicist who lived from 1928 to 2016 and made groundbreaking discoveries about how galaxies rotate. Her work provided crucial evidence for the existence of dark matter, an invisible form of matter that makes up most of the universe and is now fundamental to our understanding of how galaxies are structured and held together.
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Florence
- Family name
- Cooper
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Philadelphia
- Place of death
- Princeton
- Child
- Judith Young
- Occupation
- scientist
- Educated at
- Vassar College
- Employer
- Georgetown University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Judaism
- Award
- John Scott Award
- Doctoral advisor
- George Gamow
- Student of
- Maud Worcester Makemson
- Doctoral student
- Sandra Faber
- Field of work
- dark matter
- Image
- Vera Rubin with antique globes.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1928-01-01
- Commons category
- Vera Rubin
- date of death
- 2016-01-01
- interested in
- physical cosmology
- name in native language
- Vera Rubin
- birth name
- Vera Florence Cooper
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- writing language
- English language
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