fuckyeahhistorycrushes:Vera Rubin, born 1928, was the first woman to be awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society since 1828. Pictured here during her undergrad at Vassar College, she went on to get a PhD in astronomy at Georgetown, after
fuckyeahhistorycrushes:Vera Rubin, born 1928, was the first woman to be awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society since 1828. Pictured here during her undergrad at Vassar College, she went on to get a PhD in astronomy at Georgetown, after