Mystery AtlasVera Rubin
American astronomer whose galaxy rotation-curve measurements in the 1970s, made with Kent Ford, showed stars at galaxies' edges orbiting far faster than visible matter could explain, independently reviving the missing-mass problem and making it central to cosmology.
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Vera Rubin is associated with Fritz Zwicky — Both independently found evidence of unseen mass decades apart; Rubin's 1970s rotation-curve work was not a direct continuation of Zwicky's largely-overlooked findings, but reopened the same problem and made it central to cosmology.