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Fritz Zwicky discovered Dark Matter. Rubin thought she discovered Dark Matter, because she wasn't aware of Zwicky's paper written in German many years before Ru
by jpizagno 2y ago
Fritz Zwicky discovered Dark Matter. Rubin thought she discovered Dark Matter, because she wasn't aware of Zwicky's paper written in German many years before Rubin's paper.
edit: I have a PhD in Astronomy, with a focus on Dark Matter, and I measured rotation curves of galaxies myself.
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- david-gpu 2y agoWikipedia link for those who, like me, where unfamiliar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Zwicky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Zwicky
- vo2maxer 2y agoI have not read anywhere that she discovered Dark Matter but rather that her observations confirmed its presence as “first proposed by Fritz Zwicky in 1933 but rejected by most scientists.” [1] https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/medalofscience50/rubin.jsp https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/medalofscience50/ru...