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    Vera Florence Cooper Rubin (/ˈruːbɪn/; July 23, 1928 – December 25, 2016) was an American astronomer who pioneered work on galaxy rotation rates. She uncovered...
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    The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, previously referred to as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), is an astronomical observatory currently under construction...
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  • Vera Dourmashkin Rubin (August 6, 1911 – February 7, 1985) was an anthropologist and the director of the Research Institute for the Study of Man. She specialised...
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  • translator Vera Ellen Westmeier Rohe (known as Vera-Ellen, 1921–1981), American actress Vera Rózsa (1917–2010), Hungarian singer Vera Rubin (1928-2016)...
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  • and Islamic literature at Tel Aviv University Vera Rubin (1928–2016), American astronomer Yoram Rubin, bodyguard of Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin...
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  • The Vera Rubin Early Career Prize is named after Vera Rubin and is given by the Division on Dynamical Astronomy of the American Astronomical Society....
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    American Mathematical Society. Rubin's parents were mathematician Robert Joshua Rubin and astronomer Vera Rubin. Rubin is brother to astronomer and physicist...
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  • astronomer involved with the theory of dark matter. He worked with scientist Vera Rubin, who used his advanced spectrometer in her studies of space and matter...
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  • orbits. Vera Rubin, Kent Ford, and Ken Freeman's work in the 1960s and 1970s provided further strong evidence, also using galaxy rotation curves. Rubin and...
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    flattened distribution of nebulae had earlier been noted by William Herschel. Vera Rubin had also identified the supergalactic plane in the 1950s, but her data...
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