[Sci-all-l] Special Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: Vera Rubin on Dark Matter

[James Lombardi]

            Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
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                Wednesday, March 30 2005

            "A Brief History of Dark Matter"

                     Vera Rubin '48
           Carnegie Institution of Washington

            Physics Lecture Hall (Room 207)
              Sanders Physics Laboratory
                    Vassar College

  Tea and Cookies at 2:45, Lecture begins at 3:00 PM

An internationally renowned expert on galaxies, Rubin
forever altered our perceptions of the universe by
proving the existence of so-called dark matter.  According
to the calculations of Rubin and her colleagues, 90% or
more of the universe is made of this mysterious
nonluminous mass.  To learn more about Vera Rubin, see
http://www.vassar.edu/SciWomen/#rubin and
http://www.dtm.ciw.edu/rubin/ .

For a primer on dark matter, see
http://chandra.harvard.edu/xray_astro/dark_matter.html .

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