Monday, December 26, 2016

Vera Rubin dies at 88.

Vera Rubin the discoverer of Dark matter

(July 23, 1928-December 25, 2016) 

"In a spiral galaxy, the ratio of dark-to-light matter is about a factor of ten. That's probably a good number for the ratio of our ignorance-to-knowledge. We're out of kindergarten, but only in about third grade."
—Vera Rubin 
She was first person to state existence of astronomical ignorance aka DARK MATTER. 
She was denied a Nobel despite quality of her work on DarkMatter.

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