Vera Rubin
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Vera Rubin was an American astronomer and physicist who lived from 1928 to 2016 and made groundbreaking discoveries about how galaxies rotate. Her work provided crucial evidence for the existence of dark matter, an invisible form of matter that makes up most of the universe and is now fundamental to our understanding of how galaxies are structured and held together.
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