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I'm saddened to see no mention here of Vera Rubin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Rubin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Rubin I've heard several male sc

by arcanus 11y ago

I'm saddened to see no mention here of Vera Rubin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Rubin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Rubin I've heard several male scientists in cosmology suggest that Rubin either discovered or was instrumental in the discovery of dark matter. This was a profound and fascinating experimental result: galaxies contain much more mass than can be accounted for by observable matter. The implication is that the observable (baryonic) matter in the universe is only a small fraction of the actual mass content. This is remains an unsolved problem in cosmology. I know that even today the LHC is running at higher energies in part due to an is interested in explaining dark matter through the generation of WIMPs and other massive particles. So this remains a very interesting question in physics. Despite her thought providing result, she is not a well known scientist.

hoopd 11y ago
You're saddened? Why? As you say Rubin gets appropriate credit for her work within her field. Plus she doesn't even believe in Dark Matter, she made a very important contribution but now she's working on a competing theory that few care about. Nobody knows who Kent Ford is, he co-authored Rubin's big paper. What about Jan Oort? He came up with the idea of Dark Matter in the 1930's and some say found the first evidence for it. What about Fritz Zwicky? Some say he's the one who found the first evidence and is the one really being left out of history.[0] We're being taught to feel bad for women in science in situations where we don't feel bad for men. Science is full of forgotten men who made massive contributions to the world, this is about picking the woman and figuring out how to mythologize her. [0] - http://discovermagazine.com/2009/jan/30-the-father-of-dark-matter-still-gets-no-respect http://discovermagazine.com/2009/jan/30-the-father-of-dark-m...

by arcanus 11y ago

hoopd 11y ago

You're saddened? Why? As you say Rubin gets appropriate credit for her work within her field. Plus she doesn't even believe in Dark Matter, she made a very important contribution but now she's working on a competing theory that few care about. Nobody knows who Kent Ford is, he co-authored Rubin's big paper. What about Jan Oort? He came up with the idea of Dark Matter in the 1930's and some say found the first evidence for it. What about Fritz Zwicky? Some say he's the one who found the first evidence and is the one really being left out of history.[0] We're being taught to feel bad for women in science in situations where we don't feel bad for men. Science is full of forgotten men who made massive contributions to the world, this is about picking the woman and figuring out how to mythologize her. [0] - http://discovermagazine.com/2009/jan/30-the-father-of-dark-matter-still-gets-no-respect http://discovermagazine.com/2009/jan/30-the-father-of-dark-m...