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Author:
Yeager, Ashley Jean, author.
Title:
Bright galaxies, dark matter, and beyond : the life of astronomer Vera Rubin / Ashley Jean Yeager.
Publisher:
The MIT Press,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
xiv, 236 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Subject:
Rubin, Vera C.,--1928-2016.
Rubin, Vera C.,--1928-2016.
Astronomers--United States--Biography.
Women astronomers--United States--Biography.
Dark matter (Astronomy)
Astronomers.
Dark matter (Astronomy)
Women astronomers.
United States.
collective biographies.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-224) and index.
Contents:
Stellar tales -- Dark matter's -- Waiting on the stars -- Threads of research : a rotating universe and radio astronomy -- Chasing stars -- A clumpy cosmos -- Career challenges and galactic questions -- A taste of astronomy -- At last, a real astronomer -- Andromeda's young, hot stars -- The matter we cannot see -- More matter than meets the eye -- Diving into dark matter -- Gender equality in astronomy : a darker universe? -- The final nights.
Summary:
"The biography of a pioneering woman astronomer whose work was ignored until she uncovered evidence for the existence of dark matter--and then was passed over for the Nobel prize"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
0262046121
9780262046121
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1221016859
LCCN:
2020047103
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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