《The scientist who discovered one of the universe's most important forms of matter hasn't received the Nobel Prize for a disturbing reason》（http://www.businessinsider.com/this-scientist-hasnt-received-the-nobel-prize-for-a-disturbing-reason-2015-12）说薇拉.鲁宾（Vera Rubin）找到宇宙中存在暗物质的确定性证据是值得一次诺奖的，但因为某种原因而没给。

I was always taught that Fritz Zwicky discovered dark matter, but that’s not really the case. As I point out in the video, his observations showed the masses of clusters were too large, but the numbers he got were far too high, and we now know they must have been in error (or, to be more fair, his uncertainties were too large). In the end, Vera Rubin was the first to find convincing evidence that dark matter exists.

There’s an important point to make here. Rubin’s observations were made in the 1970s, and over the years they have been pretty much confirmed; we know dark matter exists.

Fast forward. In the late 1990s, two teams of astronomers announced the existence of dark energy, which appears to be accelerating the expansion of the Universe.* In 2011, the Nobel Prize was awarded to the astronomers on those teams for the discovery.

可能是因为她是女性，因为有很多女性在科学上的成就应获诺奖： the work of many other women who assuredly deserve one. 

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