...Still more mysteries of the universe remain hidden. Their discovery awaits the adventurous scientists of the future. I like it this way.”

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The first woman to operate major telescopes in many observatories, Rubin opened scientific opportunities to other women. “We have peered into a new world,” Rubin wrote, “and have seen that it is more mysterious and more complex than we had imagined...4/5

There’s an observatory in Chile named after Rubin, as well as a ridge on Mars, and she received national and international awards for her groundbreaking work, which included more than 100 research papers. 3/5

Rubin and astronomer Kent Ford worked together closely for decades, and their findings permanently altered and greatly expanded the field. The New York Times described her work as “ushering in a Copernican-scale change” in cosmological theory. 2/5

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, and neither cooked nor ironed, not that her male colleagues were likely to do so, either. She was an editor at American Geologist and received much recognition for her survey and related work at the U.S. Geological Survey, which included more than 40 research papers.
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She founded the department of geology at Bryn Mawr College, where her students described her as rigorous, incisive, and consistent. She taught her students to think critically, loved field work and insisted upon it for her women students.
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In 1893 she earned the first doctorate that John Hopkins University awarded to a woman, proving in her dissertation that rocks previously considered sediments were metamorphosed lava flows.
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