Rubin was born Vera Cooper on July 23, 1928, in Philadelphia. At age 10, she moved with her family to Washington, D.C. There, she stared out her bedroom window (she said you could still see the ...

Dr. Vera Cooper Rubin has been awarded the honor through the American Women Quarters Program, which was launched in 2022 by the U.S. Mint in partnership with the Smithsonian American Women’s ...

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 129, No. 974 (2017 April), pp. 1-4 (4 pages) Planck Collaboration, Ade, P. A. R., Aghanim, N., Arnaud, M ...

The new chip will begin shipping in 2026. The platform was named after Vera Florence Cooper Rubin, an astronomer who established the presence of dark matter. Rubin also led studies of the ...

Late into his keynote at Nvidia’s 2025 GTC conference, CEO Jensen Huang announced the next generation of Nvidia AI data center chips named Vera and Rubin, after the groundbreaking astrophysicist.