Article: Dark Matter Battle for Nobel Prize: Roles of Harvard, University of Chicago.

Byline: The Drexler Foundation

LOS ALTOS HILLS, Calif., Oct. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Many Americans working in the fields of astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology were hoping that research astronomer Vera Rubin of the Carnegie Institution of Washington would share in the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics, but it didn't happen. In the mid 1970's, Dr. Rubin's creative astronomical research had confirmed the existence of massive amounts of a mysterious invisible substance, dubbed dark matter, that greatly outweighs visible matter.

Unfortunately for Dr. Rubin, the nature of dark matter, which represents about 83 percent of the mass of the universe, has not been ...

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