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Ele Willoughby, PhD

Happy birthday to Vera Rubin (neé Cooper, ‘28-‘16) & her discovery that angular motion of galaxies deviates from predictions, 1st evidence for dark matter, now known as 5x as common as matter & the stuff which dictates dynamics of galaxies & evolution of our universe! Nobel committee waited 3 years after she died to reward another for the theory of dark matter.

She found 6 months mat leave post MSc very difficult being
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My linocut portrait of astronomer Vera Rubin with short hair, glasses and resting her face in her hand in burgundy on a background of outer space with stars and galaxies in black with blue and pink splotches to mimic how dust bends light in space. At the base of the print is a large spiral galaxy with a plot of orbital velocity versus distance going out from its centre (so the distance axis is indeed distance from centre). There are two lines labelled “observed” which goes up from the origin and then is a pretty flat wavy line all the way across. This line marks the bottom of Rubin. Below it is a wide empty gap of visible white paper down to the second line labelled “predicted”. The Predicted line goes up from the origin to a peak where it diverges from the observed and falls smoothly back down in a gentle curve.
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Ele Willoughby, PhD

at home watching physicist husband going to work to pursue what he loved. He insisted she return to grad school. Admitted to Georgetown at 23, expecting 2nd child. Writing her thesis, advisor Heyden got her in contact with George Gamow, who worked at nearby APL & adjunct at George Washington U who took her on as a student (PhD ‘54).

While 4 kids were young, she taught at Georgetown before gaining a position at Carnegie’s Dept of Terrestrial Magnetism.

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Ele Willoughby, PhD

1st woman to use Palomar Observatory in ‘65, solved lack of washrooms by cutting out a paper skirt & pasting it to the little man icon. With instrument maker Kent Ford she made most sensitive spectrometer of the day using his new magnetically focused image tube- allowing them to study small regions of galaxies like Andromeda, returning to her interest in galaxy dynamics.

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Ele Willoughby, PhD

Since mass is clustered in centre, nearer objects should go faster but they gathered dozens of rotation curves for galaxies & all were flat. Their data was undeniable. Dark matter proposed by Oort (‘32) & Zwicky (‘33) but largely ignored. "One day … I made sketches on a piece of paper, and suddenly I understood it all," Rubin said. A halo of unseen dark matter around galactic cores would spread mass throughout the galaxies, & speeds would remain flat with distance.

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Ele Willoughby, PhD

She championed writing, “I live and work under 3 basic assumptions. 1: There is no problem in science that can be solved by a man that cannot be solved by a woman. 2: Worldwide, half of all brains are in women. 3: We all need permission to do science, but, for reasons that are deeply ingrained in history, this permission is more often given to men than to women.”

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www.etsy.comLino Block Portrait of Astronomer Vera Rubin Woman in - EtsyThis Wood & Linocut Prints item by minouette has 4 favorites from Etsy shoppers. Ships from Canada. Listed on Jul 23, 2023
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