"dark matter",
which is just about everything in space that nobody knows about. Dr. Rubin's current job position is astronomer
at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institute of Washington in Washington D.C.Vera Rubin's life took a major change when she was about 10 or 12 years old. Her bedroom window faced north and she found that staring at the stars was more interesting than sleeping. From that day forward, she knew that it was her life's work to be an astronomer.
She has spent a majority of that time studying "dark matter",
which is just about everything in space that nobody knows about. Dr. Rubin's current job position is astronomer
at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institute of Washington in Washington D.C.
As an astronomer and a woman, Vera Rubin feels that it is very important for women to continue to make strides to excellence in anything that they do. She was the very first woman that was "permitted" to observe at the Palomar Observatory in California in 1965, only on the basis that there was only one bathroom. But she never let excuses like that keep her from the top. In 1993, Dr. Vera Rubin was awarded the National Medal of Science, which was presented to her by President Bill Clinton in an elaborate White House ceremony.
