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"It is well known that I am available twenty-four hours a day to women astronomers."
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Vera RubinI live and work with three basic assumptions, 1) There is no problem i — Vera Rubin
"I live and work with three basic assumptions, 1) There is no problem in science that can be solved by a man that cannot be solved by a woman. 2) Worldwide, half of all brains are in women. 3) We all need permission to do science, but, for reasons that are deeply ingrained in history, this permission is more often given to men than to women."
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Vera Rubin
Vera Rubin
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Vera Florence Cooper Rubin was an American astronomer who pioneered work on galaxy rotation rates. She uncovered the discrepancy between the predicted and observed angular motion of galaxies by studying galactic rotation curves, the first evidence for the galaxy rotation problem, one key piece of evidence for dark matter. Measurements by other astronomers using 21 centimeter hydrogen line radio te
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"How stars move tell us that most matter in the universe is dark. When we see stars in the sky, were only seeing five or 10 percent of the matter that there is in the universe."
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"Each one of you can change the world, for you are made of star stuff, and you are connected to the universe."
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"Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting."
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"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."
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"There is one alternative to dark matter, and that is the assumption that Newtons laws dont hold over distances as great as galaxies. But we know that Newtons 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."
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