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Jesse · 12-28-2016, 10:08 AM

(CNN)Vera Rubin, a pioneering astrophysicist who proved the existence of dark matter, had a gift for overcoming daunting challenges.

In the 1960s, she became the first woman to observe at the legendary Caltech's Palomar Observatory. But the boys club that ran the place had some bad news for her.
"They told her, 'It's a real problem because we don't have a ladies room,' so she went back to her room and took out a little piece of paper and cut it into a skirt and went to the bathroom door and stuck it on the men's figure on the door.
"She said, 'Look, now you have a ladies room.'"
"She could do anything of that nature, yet she was extremely kind and warm and positively, amazingly so," said Neta Bahcall, an astrophysicist who oversees Princeton's undergraduate astronomy program at 74 years old. "Vera never gave up on anything."
Rubin died on Sunday at the age of 88, the Carnegie Institution of Science said. Her colleagues and those who admired her spirit remember her as someone who revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos by confirming the existence of dark matter, invisible material that comprises more than 90% of the universe...

http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/27/us/ver...omy-obit-trnd/

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Jesse Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Transguy Preferred Pronoun?: He Relationship Status: single Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Central West Coast of Florida Posts: 5,204 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 34,866 Thanked 17,793 Times in 3,939 Posts Rep Power: 21474855	Vera Rubin born July 23, 1928 - died Dec 25 2016 (CNN)Vera Rubin, a pioneering astrophysicist who proved the existence of dark matter, had a gift for overcoming daunting challenges. In the 1960s, she became the first woman to observe at the legendary Caltech's Palomar Observatory. But the boys club that ran the place had some bad news for her. "They told her, 'It's a real problem because we don't have a ladies room,' so she went back to her room and took out a little piece of paper and cut it into a skirt and went to the bathroom door and stuck it on the men's figure on the door. "She said, 'Look, now you have a ladies room.'" "She could do anything of that nature, yet she was extremely kind and warm and positively, amazingly so," said Neta Bahcall, an astrophysicist who oversees Princeton's undergraduate astronomy program at 74 years old. "Vera never gave up on anything." Rubin died on Sunday at the age of 88, the Carnegie Institution of Science said. Her colleagues and those who admired her spirit remember her as someone who revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos by confirming the existence of dark matter, invisible material that comprises more than 90% of the universe... http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/27/us/ver...omy-obit-trnd/ __________________ “You’re so hard on yourself. Take a moment. Sit back. Marvel at your life: at the grief that softened you, at the heartache that widened you, at the suffering that strengthened you. Despite everything, you still grow. Be proud of this.”