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Author Yeager, Ashley Jean, author.

Title Bright galaxies, dark matter, and beyond : the life of astronomer Vera Rubin / Ashley Jean Yeager.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021]

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 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  520.92 YEAGER    Check Shelf
Description xiv, 236 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-224) and index.
Contents Stellar tales -- Dark matter's -- Waiting on the stars -- Threads of research : a rotating universe and radio astronomy -- Chasing stars -- A clumpy cosmos -- Career challenges and galactic questions -- A taste of astronomy -- At last, a real astronomer -- Andromeda's young, hot stars -- The matter we cannot see -- More matter than meets the eye -- Diving into dark matter -- Gender equality in astronomy : a darker universe? -- The final nights.
Summary "The biography of a pioneering woman astronomer whose work was ignored until she uncovered evidence for the existence of dark matter--and then was passed over for the Nobel prize"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Rubin, Vera C., 1928-2016.
Astronomers -- United States -- Biography.
Women astronomers -- United States -- Biography.
Dark matter (Astronomy)
Rubin, Vera C., 1928-2016. (OCoLC)fst00235481
Astronomers. (OCoLC)fst00819629
Dark matter (Astronomy) (OCoLC)fst00887854
Women astronomers. (OCoLC)fst01177176
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Biographies.
Note Pre-publication title: All the matter we cannot see : the life and work of astronomer Vera Rubin
ISBN 9780262046121 (hardcover)
0262046121 (hardcover)
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