Vera Rubin
1928 CE–2016 CE · Philadelphia
Vera Florence Cooper Rubin (; July 23, 1928 – December 25, 2016) 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, the first evidence for the galaxy rotation problem, one key piece of evidence for dark matter. Measurements by other astronomers using 21 centimeter hydrogen line radio telescopes clinched the case. Honored during her lifetime for her work, she received the Bruce Medal, the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, and the National Medal of Science, among others. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is named in her honor. Her legacy is described by The New York Times as "ushering in a Copernican-scale change" in cosmological theory. Prominent theoretical physicist Lisa Randall and others have argued that Rubin was neglected for the Nobel Prize. Rubin spent her life advocating for women in science, and mentored aspiring female astronomers.
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- Hans Bethe· 1906 CE–2005 CE
- Edward Teller· 1908 CE–2003 CE
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- Claude Shannon· 1916 CE–2001 CE
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- Andrei Sakharov· 1921 CE–1989 CE
- Chen-Ning Yang· 1922 CE–2025 CE
- Freeman Dyson· 1923 CE–2020 CE
- Benoit Mandelbrot· 1924 CE–2010 CE
- Ali Javan· 1926 CE–2016 CE
- Tsung-Dao Lee· 1926 CE–2024 CE
- Abdus Salam· 1926 CE–1996 CE
- John Nash· 1928 CE–2015 CE
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- James Watson· 1928 CE–2025 CE
- Murray Gell-Mann· 1929 CE–2019 CE
- Steven Weinberg· 1933 CE–2021 CE
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- Deng Xiaoping· 1904 CE–1997 CE
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- Yuri Andropov· 1914 CE–1984 CE
- Konstantin Chernenko· 1911 CE–1985 CE
- Emperor Hirohito (Showa)· 1901 CE–1989 CE
- Gamal Abdel Nasser· 1918 CE–1970 CE
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