Then, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Vera Rubin, a young astronomer at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, presented findings based on a new sensitive spectrograph that could measure the velocity curve of edge-on spiral galaxies to a greater degree of accuracy than had ever before been achieved.

* 1928 – Vera Rubin, American astronomer

* 1978 — Vera Rubin, Kent Ford, N. Thonnard, and Albert Bosma measure the rotation curves of several spiral galaxies and find significant deviations from what is predicted by the Newtonian gravitation of visible stars,

Other influential people who have lived in Hartsdale include the artist / sculptor Malvina Hoffman, American businessman Vernon Jordan, National Urban League president John Edward Jacob, pro-wrestler " Classy " Freddie Blassie, actor Peter Riegert, singer / musician / composer Billy Vera, novelist and educator Michael Rubin, Mad magazine artist Jack Davis, and Nobel laureate Louis J. Ignarro.

Following this, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Vera Rubin, a young astronomer at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution of Washington presented findings based on a new sensitive spectrograph that could measure the velocity curve of edge-on spiral galaxies to a greater degree of accuracy than had ever before been achieved.

* Vera Rubin

In 1828 the Royal Astronomical Society presented her with their Gold Medal for this work — no woman would be awarded it again until Vera Rubin in 1996.

Vera Rubin measuring spectra, c. 1970

Vera ( Cooper ) Rubin ( born ) is an American astronomer.

Vera Rubin also has honorary Doctors of Science degrees from numerous universities, including Harvard and Yale.

* Robert Rubin, " Vera Rubin " in OUT OF THE SHADOWS: Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics, Nina Byers and Gary Williams, ed., Cambridge University Press 2006.

* Vera Rubin at Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington

* Vera Rubin autobiography notes at Scientific American

* Vera Rubin in CWP at UCLA

* Vera Rubin and Dark Matter, American Museum of Natural History

* Vera Rubin at Peter Gruber Foundation

* Oral History interview transcript with Vera Rubin 21 September 1995, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives

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In the longest novella, Princess Mary, Pechorin flirts with the Princess of the title, while conducting an affair with his ex-lover Vera, and kills his friend Grushnitsky ( of whom he is secretly contemptuous ) in a duel in which the participants stand in turn on the edge of a cliff so that the loser's death can be explained as an accidental fall.

* Primary myelofibrosis can begin with a blood picture suggestive of Polycythemia Vera or CML

Enraged, Vera challenges Quick to a fight, which she maintains the upper hand on until being hit by a garbage can by Quick.

Mr Parkin steals every moment he possibly can with May, often sneaking into the kitchen near the beginning of the day, before anyone else has arrived, and Vera caught them almost every time.

He wrote the treatise, Vera Christianae pacificationis et Ecclesiae reformandae ratio in 1549, in which he described the doctrines that should be upheld, including justification by faith.

In 1667, Gregory issued his Vera Circuli et Hyperbolae Quadratura, in which he showed how the areas of the circle and hyperbola could be obtained in the form of infinite convergent series.

Her friend and sometimes rival was Flat 7 resident Vera Collins ( Elaine Lee ) who would be perpetually unlucky in love.

Vera Bate Lombardi, Coco Chanel's muse and PR representative, was rumoured to be Adolphus ' illegitimate daughter.

This section needs to be expanded with JM Coetzee, Maryse Condé, Cyril Dabydeen, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Raywat Deonandan, Buchi Emecheta, Athol Fugard, Nadine Gordimer, Alamgir Hashmi, Bonny Hicks, Hanif Kureishi, Doris Lessing, Earl Lovelace, Gabriel García Márquez, Bharati Mukherjee, Barbara Kingsolver, VS Naipaul, Michael Ondaatje, RK Narayan, Mahashweta Devi, EM Forster, Anita Desai, Bapsi Sidhwa, Wilbur Smith, Wole Soyinka, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong ' o, Yvonne Vera, Derek Walcott, Kath Walker, Arundhati Roy, Amitav Ghosh, Haim Sabato, Eleanor Dark, Bole Butake, Anne Tanyi-Tang, Bate Besong, Maxine Hong Kingston.

Ford remarked in an interview with Peter Bogdanovich that he made it apparent to the audience that Vera Miles ' character had never gotten over Tom Doniphon because " I wanted Wayne to be the lead ".

Among the chief of these should be mentioned: the school for Indian girls ; the famous Colegio de Santa Cruz in Tlatelolco ; the introduction of the first printing press into the New World ; the foundation of various hospitals, especially those of Mexico and Vera Cruz ; the impetus he gave to industries, agriculture, and manufactures, for which he brought trained mechanics and labourers from Spain ; and the printing of many books.

Vera announces she is pregnant and decides to be a full-time mother, Elliott having been promoted from officer to detective.

Guest star Art Carney in one episode was to be the spokesperson for retail distribution of Mel's Chili (" Chili con Carney ") but backed out when he discovered Vera was a distant relative with part ownership in the venture.

Vera was occasionally referred to as a " kid ", presumed to be in her late 20s, but Beth Howland was 35.

The book also features Achille Poirot, Hercule's twin brother ( later revealed to be Hercule Poirot himself in ' disguise '), and an eventual double agent, the beautiful Countess Vera Rossakoff, who is portrayed as a stereotypical aventurière and down-at-the-heels Russian ex-aristocrat of the pre-October Revolution period.

They leave the village with Guy, intending to head for a refugee camp where Vera and the baby would be looked after.

Vera came to stay again later in 1966, claiming to be ill. Ena did not believe her until she spoke to Vera's doctor, who said that Vera had a brain tumour and had a month to live, but Vera had not yet been told her condition was terminal.

As it has been described by Steve Bodansky and Vera Bodansky in " Extended Massive Orgasm: How You Can Give and Receive Intense Sexual Pleasure ," masturbation practiced with the aim of orgasm control must be carried on with the purpose of making every stroke feel exquisite and not to relieve tension, like " simple " masturbation does.

His mother, Vera, was the sister of Afa and Sika of the Wild Samoans, and his later Umaga gimmick would be compared to their " wildness ".

When in 1929, Menchik entered the Carlsbad, Viennese master Albert Becker ridiculed her entry by proposing that any player whom Menchik defeated in tournament play should be granted membership into the Vera Menchik Club.

The following year he was expelled in a rising organized by local caudillos Mariano Vera and Estanislao López, and he was sent to be imprisoned at Artigas encampment.

None of the cast members playing the family members, including Staunton, knew that Vera was to be arrested until the moment the actors playing the police knocked on the door of the house they were using for rehearsals.

The movie, which features Adolphe Menjou, Edgar Bergen ( with Charlie McCarthy ), Andrea Leeds, Kenny Baker, Ella Logan, Helen Jepson, Vera Zorina, Bobby Clark and the Ritz Brothers, depicts a movie producer who chooses a simple girl to be " Miss Humanity " and to critically evaluate his movies from the point of view of the ordinary person.

Director John Ford remarked in an interview with Peter Bogdanovich that he made it apparent to the audience that Vera Miles ' character had never entirely recovered from an abortive romance with Wayne's gunslinging rancher because " I wanted Wayne to be the lead.