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That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.
Vera Rubin
![Vera Rubin](/img/nopic_profile.png)
Born: July 23, 1928
Died: December 25, 2016 (aged 88)
Bio: Vera Rubin was an American astronomer who pioneered work on galaxy rotation rates. She uncovered the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves.