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Jacqueline and Simon Mitton's Vera Rubin: A Life offers a thoughtful and nuanced chronicle of the famed astronomer's life. The Mittons' book is the first full-length biography of Rubin, whose work on the rotational velocity of galaxies went a long way toward establishing the existence of dark matter.
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