Bright Galaxies, Dark Matter, and Beyond
Subtitle: the Life of Astronomer Vera Rubin
By: Ashley Jean Yeager
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Language: eng
Number of pages: 145
ISBN-13: 9780262366878
Subjects: Astronomers; Biography; Women astronomers; Dark matter (Astronomy)
Description: "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"--
Table of contents: title: Stellar tales; title: The start of darkness; title: Waiting on the stars; title: Threads of research : a rotating universe and radio astronomy; title: Chasing stars; title: A clumpy cosmos; title: Career challenges and galactic questions; title: A taste of astronomy; title: At last, a real astronomer; title: Andromeda's young, hot stars; title: The matter we cannot see; title: More matter than meets the eye; title: Diving into dark matter; title: Gender equality in astronomy : a darker universe?; title: The final nights.