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Vera Rubin
ROLE ASTRONOMERMENTIONS 1LAST SEEN MAY 29, 2026
// BIO
American astronomer whose galaxy rotation measurements in the 1970s provided key evidence for dark matter.
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mention·Lex Fridman·MAY 29, 2026
“In the 1970s with Vera Rubin, she did a simple thing. She said, how fast are galaxies rotating?... You get an answer, and then you measure it, and it's wrong. And so that's the, wow, huh, I don't know what that is. And that led to the hypothesis of dark matter.”
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