Vera Rubin
American astronomer
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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. Wikipedia
Born: July 23, 1928, Philadelphia, PA
Died: December 25, 2016 (age 88 years), Princeton, NJ
Education: Georgetown University (1950–1954), Cornell University (1951), and Vassar College (1948)
Children: Karl Rubin and Judith Young
Parents: Rose Applebaum Cooper and Philip Cooper
Spouse: Robert Joshua Rubin (m. 1948–2008)