She is best known for her early work on dark matter.
It was her pioneering work on galaxy rotation rates that led to the theory of dark matter believes the scientific community.
But Vera Rubin's achievements did not come easily. Her entry into the scientific academic world was at a time when women were struggling to find a place in the scientific community.
The only astronomy undergraduate from Vassar College in 1948, she is said to have denied entry into Princeton University's graduate program in astronomy. Princeton didn't allow women until 1975.
A winner of many awards, Rubin, in 1981, was the second female astronomer to be elected to the US National Academy of Sciences.
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