OT: RIP Vera Rubin, confirmed the existence of Dark Matter.

[LionJim]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/27/us/ve...it-trnd/?iid=ob_homepage_deskrecommended_pool

All four of her kids got PhDs, her son Karl Rubin is a most eminent mathematician.

She was a great scientist, during a time when the culture wasn't all that hospitable to female scientists.

 

[udsig91]

Sheldon and the gang will be very sad.

 

[LafayetteBear]

Dark Matter? Maybe Tom can merge this thread into the one about something ginormous being discovered under Antarctica. Works for me....