Early Life and Education
Rubin's field of study for her masters degree
What is Physics?
The instrument designer who Rubin worked with
Who is Kent Ford?
School that did not accept Rubin because she was a woman
What is Princeton?
This comprises 84% of the universe
What is Dark Matter?
Galaxy that Rubin discovered
What is NGC 4550?
The city Rubin was born in (Hint: it is close to lancaster!)
What is Philadelphia?
Where Rubin took on a research position
What is the Carnegie Institution?
When light moves toward us
What is a blue shift?
Originally, it was believed that the core region of a spiral galaxy has the most mass and therefore the most gravitational pull because it had the highest concentration of this
What are visible stars?
What is opposite?
Where Rubin completed her undergraduate studies
What is Vassar College?
Rubin was a professor here
What is Georgetown?
How many children Rubin had
What is four?
large amounts of unseen matter in the outer regions of the galaxy where there are few visible stars
What is Dark Matter?
Virgo Cluster galaxies have been distorted by this
What is the gravity of other nearby galaxies?
Where Rubin completed her PhD
What is Georgetown?
What Rubin did with the new instrument
What is bringing it to the most powerful telescopes?
When light moves away from us
What is a red shift?
Originally, it was believed that the farther a star is from the center of a spiral galaxy, the slower this was
What is orbital speed?
Award that Rubin was granted in 1993
What is the National Medal of Science?
The field of study for her PhD
What is astronomy?
The device that Rubin and Ford designed
What is a spectrograph that utilizes an image tube?
Rubin and Ford used the Doppler Effect to measure
What is the same speed as?
Award that Rubin was never given but deserved for all of her work
What is the Nobel Prize?