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How Vera Rubin changed science (washingtonpost.com)
12 points by Mz on Dec 27, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



It's pretty sad how the work of Kent Ford that carried out the experiment that gave observational confirmation of Dark Matter with Vera Rubin is being totally forgotten by history.

As the work of people like Jacobus Kapteyn, half a century before that actually had the courage to propose to the astronomical community something as abstract at the time as Dark Matter.

Sexism has these problems unfortunately...




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