RIP Pioneering Astronomer Vera Rubin: 88

[ZapperZ]

Another strong candidate that should have been awarded the Nobel Prize has left us.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/pioneering-astronomer-vera-rubin-dies-88-203822566.html

Rubin, like Deborah Jin before her, were the two strong candidates for the Nobel Prize in physics, thus ending the very long and underserving drought for a woman to win this prize in a long time.

Zz.

 

[julian]

Dark matter scientist and advocate of women in the sciences. RIP

 

[Vanadium 50]

Thought I was going to have to post this, but you beat me by 14 minutes.

 

[atyy]

Thanks ZapperZ. One thought when I read your post, though I agree that Vera Rubin was a great scientist, is that perhaps the lesson one should learn is that there is plenty of great work not recognized by prizes, so should one really regret that Rubin did not receive a Nobel?

While we're on the subject - could one argue that Rubin did not deserve a Nobel, since she merely confirmed Zwicky's conclusions?

 

[Astronuc]

RIP, Dr Vera Rubin, Who Confirmed Existence Of Dark Matter
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...confirmed-existence-of-dark-matter-dies-at-88

http://www.amnh.org/explore/resource-collections/cosmic-horizons/profile-vera-rubin-and-dark-matter/

 

[robphy]

https://www.aip.org/remembering-vera-rubin (has links to Physics Today articles by Vera Rubin - free until 1/27/2017)

Vera Rubin in "The Astronomers"... start at 8m40s


Vera Rubin in "The Ring of Truth"... start at 37m30s

 

[robphy]

The 1994 Karl G. Jansky Lecture : What's the Matter in the Universe
Vera C. Rubin

http://library.nrao.edu/jansky3.shtml [navigate to her lecture to view the stream in your browser.]

The video links to http://library.nrao.edu/public/misc/videos/02000000000036.flv