“I live and work with three basic assumptions... 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.”

About Vera Rubin

Scientist • American

Vera Rubin was a trailblazing American astronomer whose work provided some of the most compelling evidence for the existence of dark matter. Her observations of galaxy rotation curves revealed that the outer regions of...