Don’t forget to marvel

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Ophelia Benson

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Vera Rubin wasn’t very active on Twitter, in fact she sent only six tweets, all on February 6 this year. But they’re good ones.

https://twitter.com/rubin_vera/status/695087020180373504

https://twitter.com/rubin_vera/status/695094912895815681

https://twitter.com/rubin_vera/status/695097644033552384

That’s what she did. Result: discovery of dark matter.

Best of all the last one:

https://twitter.com/rubin_vera/status/695100893390331909

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One response to “Don’t forget to marvel”

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    latsot

    If you’re only going to write six tweets they should definitely be ones that make the rest of us look bad. I was vaguely aware of Rubin and her connection to dark matter, but didn’t know many excellent things about her that I now do thanks to Ophelia and others.

    Rebecca Watson posted a video on Patreon about Rubin here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/rip-vera-rubin-7595020

    She points out that more people called Peter have received Nobel prizes in physics than women.

    You might have to be a subscriber, I’m not sure.

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