caption doctoral_advisor thesis_year birth_place citizenship awards nationality fields workplaces notable_students birth_date alt known_for image article_title academic_advisors name alma_mater
vera rubin measuring spectra , c. 1970 george gamow 1954 philadelphia , pennsylvania , united states american bruce medal of the royal astronomical society , national medal of medal science , dickson prize in science , gold american astronomy georgetown university , carnegie institution of washington sandra faber 23 july 1928 photograph galaxy rotation problem dark matter rubin-ford effect rubin vera f1.jpg vera rubin
 richard feynman , hans bethe , philip morrison vera rubin vassar college , cornell university , georgetown university
vera rubin

vera -lrb- cooper -rrb- rubin -lrb- born -rrb- is an american astronomer who pioneered work on galaxy rotation rates .
she uncovered the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion , by studying galactic rotation curves .
this phenomenon became known as the galaxy rotation problem .
