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Born in 1928, Vera Rubin set her sights on Princeton, but they wouldn’t accept female grad students in astronomy. So she earned her master’s from Cornell & PhD from Georgetown.

In 1965, Rubin became the 1st woman allowed to observe at the Palomar Observatory. She went on to find evidence for the existence of dark matter.

In 1993, Rubin was awarded the National Medal of Science. But curiously, she was not awarded a Nobel Prize. https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/04/18/vera-rubin-interview-women-in-science/ #HistoryRemix #science #space #history

in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

it’s truly sad how hard it still is for women to get higher ed degrees. I was into Geology & History and was basically told I could not get any funding (or even recommendations) because it’s a man’s field. I wanted to get a PhD in 19th C burlesque and no university would take me because only men study it.
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

thanks for sharing. Unfortunately, there are many roadblocks for women, one of the most relates to Dame Bell...being stolen for quasar discovery...
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

I've recently met a woman who was forced to quit her research, her passion, because the man in control of funding wanted to rape her. She mentioned a colleague of her gave in. It was apparently a highly toxic environment.

Honestly I expected more from academia.

in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

Curiously -> shamfeully, scandalously.
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

Sorry, Dahlink. The Nobel Prize will be handed to the men who steal her work.

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