The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details
Vera C Rubin
Title:
Staff Member, Astronomy
Affiliation:
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
5241 Broad Branch Road NW
Washington, 20015 USA
Gender:
Female
Year Deceased:
2016
Award Discipline:
Physical Sciences
Award Year:
1993
Citation:
"For her pioneering research programs in observational cosmology which demonstrated that much of the matter in the universe is dark and for significant contributions to the realization that the universe is more complex and more mysterious than had been imagined."
Presented by President Clinton and Vice President Gore at a ceremony on the White House South Lawn, September 30, 1993.