I have a (another) friend in Dayton OH who says she wants to see these in person some time. They are awesome, indeed. Thanks for the cam link, forwarded to her.
Buried at the bottom, LET US NOT FORGET the sexism/racism/ ___-ism that was present when Vera was in college:
"She was the only astronomy major to graduate from Vassar College in 1948. When she sought to enroll as a graduate student at Princeton, she learned that women were not allowed in the university’s graduate astronomy program, so she instead earned her master’s degree from Cornell.
Rubin earned her doctorate from Georgetown University, where she was later employed as a faculty member for several years before working at the Carnegie Institution in Washington, a nonprofit scientific research centre."
Good for you, Vera. Glad you got with the program, Princeton.
/FFS
Edit- the joke was on Princeton, because in getting her master's at Cornell, she got to study under Feynman and Bethe, and got her PhD from George Gamow at Georgetown.
Yet another one. FUCK YOU 2016!
People need to stop with the dying already.
Fie, 2016, fie, I say! Here's |Live Aurora Cam.|
I have a (another) friend in Dayton OH who says she wants to see these in person some time. They are awesome, indeed. Thanks for the cam link, forwarded to her.
Hey, she lived to 88, not too bad. RIP Professor Rubin, you rocked, and rocked women into science!
Buried at the bottom, LET US NOT FORGET the sexism/racism/ ___-ism that was present when Vera was in college:
"She was the only astronomy major to graduate from Vassar College in 1948. When she sought to enroll as a graduate student at Princeton, she learned that women were not allowed in the university’s graduate astronomy program, so she instead earned her master’s degree from Cornell.
Rubin earned her doctorate from Georgetown University, where she was later employed as a faculty member for several years before working at the Carnegie Institution in Washington, a nonprofit scientific research centre."
Good for you, Vera. Glad you got with the program, Princeton.
/FFS
Edit- the joke was on Princeton, because in getting her master's at Cornell, she got to study under Feynman and Bethe, and got her PhD from George Gamow at Georgetown.
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Damn that woman was awesome. Thank you, Vera.
"I hope that you will welcome, as students, those who do NOT intend to be scientists, as well as those who DO. We need senators who have studied physics and representatives who understand ecology."
<img src="https://i2.wp.com/www.brainpickings.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/verarubinsign.jpg?zoom=1.25&w=680&ssl=1">More than we ever did before..