Session Report: “Dark Matter & Galaxies: The Legacy of Vera Rubin”

A session co-sponsored with FPS and DAP in honor of the astronomer Vera Rubin featured two invited presentations and a segment of audience participation. Annika Peter gave a very accessible account of the impact of Rubin’s work on modern astrophysics and cosmology. Deidre Hunter gave an engaging personal account of Rubin. Hunter’s account of the refusal of a famous observatory to grant observing time to Rubin on the grounds that they had no woman’s bathroom, excited a great deal of commentary and a few amusing anecdotes from the audience in the last part of the session, which also featured further personal reminiscences of Rubin from members of the audience. The session was ably chaired by Beverly Hartline of FPS.

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