Celebrate Vera Rubin -- a WOMAN of science!

     This morning's Washington Post carried an obituary of Vera Rubin (1928-2016),  a pioneering astronomer who confirmed the existence of dark matter.  Yesterday's NPR feature -- noting Rubin's death and celebrating her life -- contained several quotes from this outstanding scientist about women's roles.  Two of these poetic statements I have shaped into syllable-square stanzas:

World wide, half

of    all    brains

are    women's. 

There is no problem

in science that can

be solved by a man

that  can't  also  be

solved by a woman.

About Congress, Rubin noted:

 We need senators 

who studied physics,

representatives 

who can understand 

earth's ecology.

Here is a link to a poem (at poets.org) by Alicia Ostriker that treats the topic of Rubin's research (for which many thought she should have won a Nobel prize) -- "Dark Matter and Dark Energy."