(I) Vera Rubin has written and delivered scientific
papers and lectures worldwide. (II) Vera Rubin’s
interest in stars began when she was 10 years old.
(III) Her father helped her build a telescope and
attended amateur astronomy club meetings with her.
(IV) In the early 1960s, Rubin became the first woman
permitted to observe at the Palomar Observatory,
which is run by the California Institute of Technology.
(V) One of her major contributions to astronomy was
finding evidence to support the theory that there may
be large amounts of unseen matter, known as dark
matter, in the universe.