Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1928, July 23 | Born Vera Cooper, Philadelphia, Pa. |
| 1938 | Moved to Washington, D.C. |
| 1945 | Graduated from Calvin Coolidge High School, Washington, D.C. |
| 1948 | B.A., Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. |
| 1948 | Married Robert Rubin (died 2008) |
| 1951 | M.A., Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. |
| 1954 | Ph.D., Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., George Gamow, dissertation advisor |
| 1954-1955 | Instructor of mathematics and physics, Montgomery Junior College, Takoma Park, Maryland |
| 1955-1962 | Research associate and lecturer in astronomy, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. |
| 1962-1965 | Assistant professor in astronomy, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. |
| 1963-1964 | Research assistant for E. Margaret and Geoffrey R. Burbidge, University of California, San Diego |
| 1965-2001 | Staff member in astronomy, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington. With fellow staff member and spectrometer innovator, W. Kent Ford, Jr., began measuring movements of galaxies. The data Rubin collected and interpreted provided the observational evidence for the existence of dark matter. |
| 1981 | Elected to the National Academy of Sciences |
| 1993 | Awarded the National Medal of Science |
| 1996 | Awarded the Royal Astronomical Society's Gold Medal |
| 1997 | Published Bright Galaxies Dark Matters. Woodbury, N.Y.: American Institute of Physics |
| 2001-circa 2013 | Senior fellow, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington. |
| 2016, Dec. 25 | Died, Princeton, N.J. |